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... targeted Catholics with fervent appeals to vote based on their faith. Trump supporters said faithful Catholics should not vote for Biden because of his support for abortion rights, while Biden backers said Trump is too divisive and has failed to elevate social justice issues that are part of Catholic teaching ...
... how she might rule in any future cases. Barrett’s position on gay rights is particularly crucial after two of the high court’s conservative justices, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, this month wrote a dissenting opinion that appeared to call for the court to reconsider its 2015 same-sex ...
... assistant secretary for early childhood development at the Department for Health and Human Services who now directs the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Early Childhood Initiative. For years, lawmakers relied on policies to expand access and affordability for people paying for child care but paid virtually no attention to the supply ...
... intensified last year following a declaration that Trzaskowski signed which promised help for LGBT youths in Warsaw who were rejected by their families. It called for sex education in schools in line with World Health Organization guidelines, rather than church teaching. The backlash included many local governments, particularly in the ...
... spoke with Pastor Johnson before the pandemic. Pastor Todd Johnson: As I preach to my congregation, I am ever mindful that I am preaching and teaching to people who lived through segregation and Jim Crow, and some who participated in protest and advocated for change. So I always have in ...
Culture Minister Piotr Glinski has repeatedly drawn criticism for cutting subsidies to art festivals that were planning to show controversial theater plays on Catholic themes. Glinski has fired a popular theater director who criticized him as well as the director of a World War II museum, saying the exhibition did ...
... teaching LGBT “education.” Amnesty International told the government it needs to “deliver equality and dignity.” “This result is a bitter blow and a step backwards for human rights in Taiwan,” Amnesty’s Taiwan-based Acting Director Annie Huang said. “However, despite this setback, we remain confident that love and equality ...
While police departments across the country address reform, community groups in cities like Chicago and New York are also teaching people about alternatives to 9-1-1 for crises that can be exacerbated by police presence. NewsHour Weekend’s Ivette Feliciano talked to author Alex Vitale of “End of Policing ...
... might soon give up that job for one he/she is actually qualified for (and with any luck, in Maryland). There are currently over 700 teaching vacancies in West Virginia. Connect that to the fact that our salaries rank 48th in the nation. Gov. Jim Justice spoke to three town ...
... around the country who support them are asking for a lot more than that. Lisa Desjardins: That's right. Judy Woodruff: Is there any prospect for more? Lisa Desjardins: Right. I asked Speaker Ryan about this specifically, and I think the two best potentials for more than this, one, the ...
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