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Wednesday was a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day for LGBT Americans and those who believe we deserve basic respect and civil rights. After the president’s hastily tweeted ban on transgender Americans serving openly in the military, the Justice Department’s unusual interjection in a federal employment lawsuit…

As justice conversations are gaining steam, we talk a lot about race, immigration, religious liberty, misogyny and even LGBT discrimination. But disability? We don’t usually consider that a justice issue. We the disabled are even marginalized by those who consider…

Two Baptist pastors in Myanmar who have been imprisoned since Christmas Eve face up to eight years in prison for helping a journalist who photographed evidence of the Myanmar military’s bombing of a Catholic church.

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, a Methodist-turned-Catholic politician, describes religious freedom as “the choice of what you do with your own soul.”

Two-thirds believe Islam is not part of mainstream U.S. society and contend it encourages violence more than other faiths, while 72 percent see a natural conflict between Islam and democracy, according to Pew.

Evangelical Christian leaders who informally advise the president discussed reversing the year-old policy two weeks ago at the White House, according to David Brody of Christian Broadcasting Network News.

His agenda stalled and his party divided, President Donald Trump veered into the nation’s simmering culture wars by announcing plans to ban transgender people from serving in the military.