End Religious Abuse

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Religious liberty should never be used as a shield for child maltreatment. This AP article exposes how some leaders are pushing policies that put children at risk.

Rejecting church and state separation is on the wish list for Trump's religious liberty commission President Donald Trump's Religious Liberty Commission is preparing to make recommendations after more than a year of hearings.

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Colorado lawmakers pass rewritten conversion therapy ban after Supreme Court ruling Colorado lawmakers have approved a rewritten ban on so-called “conversion therapy” in an effort to preserve protections for LGBTQ+ youth

Of course LGBTQ Catholics are profoundly suffering. You tell them that the very essence of their being is intrinsically disordered and that same-sex acts of affection are intrinsically evil. This is the epitome of cruelty.

Vatican Report Calls Out ‘Profound Suffering’ of LGBTQ+ Catholics, Urges Deeper Listening but Stops Short of Doctrinal Change | EDGE United States A new Vatican report from the Synod on Synodality openly acknowledges the “solitude, anguish, and stigma” and “profound suffering” experienced by many LGBTQ+ Catholics, particularly in the context of conversion therapy and pressured heterosexual marriages.

It's terrifying how easy it is for well-meaning parents to fall victim to downright heinous misinformation. Thank you ProPublica. Your reporting will save lives.

Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.

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Check out this great new book that connects religion to the anti-vaxx movement.

Why Are Some Americans Vaccine-Hesitant? It’s Their Religion. In a new book, a religious studies scholar discusses how the concepts of conversion, testimony and purity can be used to study the vaccine hesitancy movement. Author Kira Ganga Kieffer explains how the vaccine hesitancy movement became bound up with religious liberty activists in trying to preserve

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This is rich. The Catholic Diocese in Buffalo ordered the members of 8 parishes to cough up THEIR OWN MONEY to help pay for the abuse settlement. The idea is dead because it was killed by (wait for it) the Vatican!

Vatican overturns Buffalo bishop order requiring parish payments in bankruptcy case A new ruling from the Vatican removes a major financial obligation tied to the Diocese of Buffalo’s bankruptcy settlement.

These deportations are the epitome of religious child maltreatment, given that Evangelicals put Trump in the White House. It's interesting that some are not in denial about the indescribable cruelty their candidate has unleashed. Let's hope this expands.

Evangelical groups warn Trump’s deportations could leave 1.3M 'torn apart' from families | The Roys Report A report from World Relief and the National Association of Evangelicals warns that immigration policies could separate more than 1 million family members through deportation and visa restrictions.

That, plus it's way unconstitutional.

Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives has Outlived its Usefulness - MinistryWatch Early critics of the 25-year-old Office for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives have proven prophetic—it has outlived its usefulness.

https://ow.ly/2YgQ50Yyg4X This new Georgia law says nothing about the Catholic "seal of confession," which is routinely exempted from anti-abuse laws. Could this mean progress?

Clergy abuse bill passes after testimony from Truett McConnell survivor - Now Georgia ATLANTA — A bill aimed at criminalizing clergy sexual abuse in Georgia is headed to Gov. Brian Kemp’s desk after passing the state House unanimously Thursday,

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We are in awe of what Hoosier Jews for Choice has helped to accomplish!

Religious Women Win Injunction Against Indiana’s Abortion Ban The decision highlights the potential of religious liberty claims to fight abortion restrictions.