Most notable in Buttigieg’s stance on LGBTQ Rights, is his own role as an openly gay man. He married his husband, Chasten on June 18, 2018. Further, in a speech at the LGBTQ Victory Fund National Champagne Brunch on April 7, 2019, Buttigieg said: “The struggle is not over when states like my own home …
White evangelical Christians are a powerful force in the Republican Party. Vice President Mike Pence is a staunch believer and former President George W. Bush is an adherent, too. But no secretary of state in recent decades has been as open and fervent as Mr. Pompeo about discussing Christianity and foreign policy in the same …
The Rapture and the Real World: Mike Pompeo Blends Beliefs and Policy Read More »
As measles outbreaks continue in the Northwest and across the nation, newly revealed health records from Oregon suggest it’s surprisingly easy to opt out of required vaccinations in that state—as in several others. In Oregon—which has the highest kindergarten vaccine exemption rate in the U.S.—about 95 percent of parents whose kids skip one or more …
It’s Terrifyingly Easy to Get Measles Vaccine Exemptions Read More »
America, it seems, is at something of an inflection point when it comes to religion and public education. Public school students in Pennsylvania are challenging bans on distributing Bibles at lunch, and Catholic high schoolers in Vermont want to participate in a publicly funded dual credit program. Parents are seeking an end to rules that …
Trump’s Tweet Raises Profile of Bible Literacy Classes in Public Schools Read More »
Efforts to promote teaching the Bible and posting “In God We Trust” in Missouri schools mirror policies promoted by national Christian legislative organizations. “Project Blitz” describes itself as a movement to “protect the free exercise of traditional Judeo-Christian religious values and beliefs in the public square, and to reclaim and properly define the narrative which …
Compared to other states, Missouri’s Bible elective bill is not one of a kind Read More »
A network of Memphis charter schools is facing questions and a potential lawsuit over an agreement with the Catholic Dioceses of Memphis. Compass Community Schools is leasing six campuses from the Catholic Diocese of Memphis for just $1. But the leases contain a “morality clause” which says the schools cannot “directly advocate, promote, teach or …
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Apparently the Catholic hierarchy still has time to find ways to attempt to undercut access to birth control and abortion. As the New York Times reported last Friday, the Trump administration is funneling $5.1 million in federal Title X family planning funding to a Southern California-based chain of faith-based anti-choice medical clinics called Obria. Obria …
Catholic Bishops Fund Anti-Choice ‘Clinics’ Set to Receive Trump Title X Funding Read More »
A measles outbreak in Rockland County, NY has sickened scores of people and alarmed public health experts who fear it may be a harbinger of the growing influence of the anti-vaccine movement. But it has also intensified long-smoldering tensions between the rapidly expanding and insular ultra-Orthodox Jewish community and secular society. On Tuesday, county officials …
An Outbreak Spreads Fear: Of Measles, of Ultra-Orthodox Jews, of Anti-Semitism Read More »
Nebraska Democrats this past Saturday became the third state party since 2016 to adopt a caucus focused on advocating on behalf of non-religious citizens. The Party’s unanimous vote of support marked a long-awaited victory for the Nebraska Secular Democrats (NSD), which had been organizing since March 2018 to gain democratic affiliation. With the caucus now …
Nebraska Democratic Party Joins National Trend, Unanimously Adopts Secular Caucus Read More »
In an April 1, 2019 post on Medium, Castro outlined his views and plan on immigration including his response to Trump’s Muslim ban: “The next president must start by reversing the cruel policies of the Trump administration, including the Muslim ban, wasteful spending on a pointless wall and cuts to the refugee program – and …
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