“The Religious Liberty Commission isn’t about protecting religious liberty for all; it’s about rejecting our nation’s religious diversity and prioritizing one narrow set of conservative ‘Judeo-Christian’ beliefs,” said one critic. “Religious freedom for some is religious freedom for none.” That’s what Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, president and CEO of Interfaith Alliance, said in a Monday statement as […]
“Donald Trump and his henchmen have sabotaged what should be a unifying moment and appear intent on instead creating a highly divisive, corporate-funded, ideologically extremist exercise.” Allies of the Trump administration, in partnership with the White House, are reportedly using the upcoming 250th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence as another opportunity to solicit […]
“They were very racist people,” Alberto Castañeda Mondragón said of his ICE attackers. “No one insulted them… It was their character, their racism toward us, for being immigrants.” A Mexican man beaten within an inch of his life last month by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents is on the mend and on Saturday spoke out to […]
“Religious readings belong in Sunday school, not in public schools,” said one parent opposed to the proposal. Less than six months after a federal judge enjoined a Texas law mandating display of the “allegedly Protestant version of the Ten Commandments” in public schools, Republican lawmakers in the Lone Star State are pushing legislation to force children to read the Bible in classrooms. […]