News Tidbits

ProPublica: Heritage Foundation Alum Critical of Transgender Rights to Lead HHS Civil Rights Office

Tulsa World: Oklahoma House passes bill that could restore Ten Commandments monument to Capitol grounds

The Tennessean: 'In God We Trust' on plates now optional under new amendment

The Globe and Mail: Canada: Alberta orders two Baptist schools to allow gay-straight alliances

Pink News: Leaked documents show Mormon Church control of anti-gay marriage campaign

Gay Star News: Christians are angry Vimeo took down a 'gay cure therapy' channel

Gay Star News: Transphobic ‘free speech’ bus vandalized with pro-trans graffiti

Boston Globe: Anti-transgender bus rolls into Boston, is promptly greeted by protests

Washington Blade: Anti-trans bus to stop in D.C. next week

Commentary Tidbits

Truthdig: Is ‘Christianized Fascism’ the Biggest Threat We Face Under Trump?

The Atlantic: The Atheists Struggling to Find Therapists in the Bible Belt

Forward: Why Would An Anti-Gay Church Picket Yeshiva University? 

SPLC Hatewatch: Texas Chapter of Anti-LGBT Hate Group Mass Resistance Launches, Helmed by Robert Oscar López

Friendly Atheist: An Oklahoma School Had a Christian Sex Educator Speak to Kids, and (Surprise!) It Was a Disaster

Religion News Service: Francis’ clericalism of mercy is perpetuating the sex abuse scandal

New York Times: Suffer the Little Children: Church Cruelty in Ireland 

Aljazeera: Mass graves in Ireland: A long history of Church abuse

The Advocate: The Handmaid's Tale Trailer Calls Out Apathy as a Cause of Its Totalitarian Regime

News Tidbits

Southern Poverty Law Center: Federal court permits Vermont lesbian to sue Liberty Counsel, Mat Staver for role in international kidnapping

Reuters: Come down from pulpit to deal with sexual abuse, Catholic leaders told

Associated Press: Katy Perry says she 'prayed the gay away' as a youth

The Independent: Republican politician says rape and incest part of God's will

Philly*com: Religious groups sue school district over transgender student

Buzzfeed: This Bus Is On A Road Trip To Convince You That Transgender People Aren’t Real

Washington Blade: Kentucky governor signs ‘religious freedom’ bill against LGBT students

Washington Blade: Caribbean pastors ask U.S. to stop promoting LGBT rights abroad

News Tidbits

The Independent: U.S. states consider laws allowing creationism to be taught by science teachers

Las Vegas Sun: Religious concerns meet Nevada bill banning therapy to convert gay, lesbian minors

The Lakeland Ledger: Polk bus driver placed on administrative leave; accused of telling boy he and his moms are going to hell

Baptist News Global: Baptist state convention sued over rape at church camp(Trigger warning)

Pink News: Christian law firm claims gay people are building an ‘army' to challenge Trump

Commentary Tidbits

Love, Joy, Feminism: Christianity Today Goes Full Pick-Up Artist

The Public Eye: Religious Freedom is a Progressive Value

The New Republic: The Abominable Legacy of Gay-Conversion Therapy

Right Wing Watch: Former Trump Campaign Adviser Says God Warned Him About Bugging Of The White House

Religious Right Figures Among U.S. Delegation to U.N. Commission on the Status of Women

The 61st session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women will take place at United Nations headquarters in New York City on March 13-24. The Commission on the Status of Women brings together representatives of U.N. member states and non-governmental organizations to promote women's empowerment and equality around the world. To the horror of LGBTQ and women's rights groups, Religious Right figures will be representing the U.S. at the meeting.

According to a March 13th press release, the U.S. State Department will include representatives from two right-wing organizations in its delegation to the 61st session of the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women. Lisa Correnti, executive vice-president of the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-FAM) and Grace Melton, Association for Social Issues at the U.N for the Heritage Foundation, will be part of the delegation. (Hat tip to Reuters.)

C-FAM and its president, Austin Ruse, have a long history of opposing LGBTQ equality and women's reproductive rights at home and at the United Nations. As recently as March 9th, C-FAM issued a statement criticizing U.N. staff for their resistance to the newly reinstated "global gag rule".

The Heritage Foundation's resume is more varied, but its right-wing credentials are solid. For decades, the Heritage Foundation has been a major mover-and-shaker of the American right, and is currently active in the push for "religious freedom" (which, as interpreted by the Religious Right, would allow anti-LGBTQ discrimination on the basis of religious beliefs). Right Wing Watch has documented the anti-LGBTQ activism of Heritage Foundation senior fellow Ryan Anderson. The organization has also engaged in troubling activism to undermine reproductive rights and oppose Planned Parenthood.

I doubt that representatives of C-FAM and the Heritage Foundation will have the best interests of all women -- women seeking reproductive health services, lesbian women, bisexual women, transgender women -- at heart during the 61st session meeting. By appointing representatives of these two organizations to its delegation, the U.S. State Department has signaled its indifference to women's reproductive rights and LGBTQ rights to the world.

Activists have condemned the decision. In a March 15th open letter to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Human Rights Campaign urged the State Department to rescind the appointments of Correnti and Melton.

"If the United States is truly committed to improving the lives of women, including LBTQ women, in the U.S. and beyond, then Lisa Correnti and Grace Melton and the organizations they represent should not be the public face of our delegation. We urge you to immediately rescind the appointment of these delegates who do not represent our shared American values."

In a March 15th press release, Out Right International observed that it is "a bad sign that two organizations that have tried to delegitimize the United Nations and human rights internationally now sit on the official US delegation."

"In their Senate confirmation hearings, Secretary of State Tillerson and US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley repeatedly pledged to uphold the right to be free from discrimination as an American value. The appointment of these organizations to the official US delegation undermines their positions. I urge Secretary Tillerson and Ambassador Haley to ensure that the US delegation maintains non-discrimination at the CSW in the face of obvious pressure from these newly appointed members of the delegation.

Fundamentalist notions about how women and girls should behave should never be the basis of advising or negotiating US foreign policy."

These delegation choices are another example of how the Trump administration is choosing foxes to guard the hen houses. Rest assured, women's rights activists and LGBTQ equality activists will continue to teach the world about the needs of their communities -- and remind the world that the Religious Right doesn't speak for them.


To read additional commentary, visit the following links.

Right Wing Watch: Trump Names C-Fam, Heritage To U.S. Delegation To UN Commission On Status Of Women

Dallas Voice: Trump administration embarrasses U.S. again by appointing hate group members to U.N. women’s rights meeting

Human Rights Watch: U.S. Sends Group Rejecting Rights to UN Women’s Commission

Sexual Assault Victim Unhappy After Group Uses Her Attack to Promote "Bathroom Bill"

2017 has produced a bumper crop of transphobic "bathroom bills", which would prohibit transgender persons from using public restrooms that correspond with their gender identity. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, lawmakers in 15 states have introduced bathroom bills during the 2017 legislative session, with legislation pending in 12 of those states.

Bathroom bill proponents defend their work as an effort to protect women and children from alleged transgender predators. Such claims are ridiculous, as multiple commentators have noted. Bathroom bill proponents fail to provide any evidence that transgender persons are more likely to commit sex crimes. Furthermore, they ignore ample evidence that transgender people experience disproportionate rates of bullying, harassment, and sexual victimization  -- including in restroom settings -- due to transphobia. For example, The Report of the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey found that out of a national sample of over 27,000 transgender adults, 9% indicated that someone denied them access to a restroom in the past year, and 12% experienced verbal harassment while accessing a restroom. Over half of respondents admitted to avoiding using a public restroom in the past year due to fear of confrontations.

Anti-sexual violence services recognize that bathroom bills have nothing to do with protecting women and children and reject the myth of transgender restroom predators. Last year, multiple victim service organizations signed a joint letter supporting equal restroom access for the transgender community. Now, a sexual assault victim is also raising her voice against bathroom bills.

According to MyNorthwest, Kelly Herron fought off a male attacker in a public Seattle restroom this year. ABC News states that her reported attacker, Gary Steiner, has a record of multiple assaults against women and is facing attempted rape and assault charges.

Herron was disgusted when Washington's Just Want Privacy campaign campaign used her attack to promote an anti-transgender policy measure. Just Want Privacy supports I-1552, a ballot initiative that would require separate restroom facilities for males and females, as well as preventing transgender people from using facilities that correspond with their gender identity.

Herron described her shock upon seeing her assault used to promote I-1552. "I’ve been pretty even keeled throughout this recovery time," she told Dori Monson at KIRO Radio. "I haven’t really cried very much or been angry. When I opened up this link to a newsletter that went out for the bill ...the Yes on I-1552, and it’s got my bloodied face on the cover of this newsletter that's coming out, and on their Facebook page, using my violent sexual assault to promote an initiative that discriminates against transgender people. What?!"

Herron emphasized her respect for transgender people as well as her outrage at having her image used without her permission.

"I have transgender friends. I work with transgender people. They are people. They identify differently and I don’t care where they use the bathroom. When I see a transgender person in the bathroom, we talk about lip gloss ... Now my face is being used to promote discrimination. This is outrageous. One issue has nothing to do with the other."

Just Want Privacy issued an apology in a March 14th Facebook post.

"Last week a Seattle woman was attacked in a bathroom at Golden Gardens by a level III sex offender.

Because our campaign exists to help create safe spaces, we referenced her story—as we have many others before her—to highlight the need for common sense public policy to minimize danger to women and children from those who seek to harm others.

We have recently learned through several media outlets that the woman objected to our reference to her story in our communications.

Since many of the volunteers that comprise this campaign are themselves survivors of sexual assault, the last thing we want to do is make anyone feel exploited.

If our actions have inadvertently failed in this effort, we are sincerely sorry.

Our campaign would welcome the opportunity to apologize to her in person if she would like to reach out to us or provide a way for us to reach her."

According to Washington Won't Discriminate (an initiative opposed to I-1552), Herron has since joined efforts to fundraise for its Decline to Sign I-1552 campaign. "Using Kelly’s story to promote I-1552 is pure propaganda," the group wrote on its website. "I-1552 would not have done one thing to prevent the attack on her, and it’s already illegal to enter a restroom or locker room to harm someone, period."

I applaud Kelly Herron for speaking out against bigotry and the misuse of her story. Sex crime victims deserve respect and support, and their struggles should never be used as cheap propaganda. Society must realize that the struggle against sexual violence and the struggle for transgender rights are entwined, not mutually exclusive.

Commentary Tidbits

Salon: Southern Baptist leader’s role in question because of his ardent Trump opposition

Refinery29: I Found Something Suspicious In The Duggar Family Scrapbook

Religion Dispatches: “He Got Away With It”: Conversion Therapy Survivor on Dr. Joseph Nicolosi’s Legacy

The Nation: This House Republican Just Endorsed a White Nationalist

Vice: A Short History of Congressman Steve King Saying Racist S**t

Three New Reports on Hate Crimes

Since Trump's election night win, and especially since his inauguration, news sources have been brimming with reports of hate crimes, including anti-Semitic incidents, threats against mosques, and attacks on LGBTQ centers. The problem has become so pressing that a coalition of news organizations, educational institutions, and civil rights groups now seek to create a database of hate crimes via ProPublica's Documenting Hate project.

Three watchdog groups have released new reports on the spike in hate crimes in the U.S., which are must-reads for anyone who is concerned about the cultural climate in Trump's America.


Southern Poverty Law Center: The Year in Hate and Extremism

The SPLC examines the implications of the radical right entering the political mainstream, "electrified" by Trump's presidential campaign and his selection of appointees with anti-Muslim and white nationalist attitudes. The report also observes that a wave of hate incidents took place shortly after Election Day, with 1,094 incidents coming to the SPLC's attention in the first 34 days. More than a third of these incidents referenced Trump, "Make America Great Again", or his misogynist comments to Billy Bush.

Against the backdrop of Trump's ascent, hate groups operating in the U.S. are proliferating. The SPLC counted 917 active hate groups in 2016, an increase from the 892 groups counted in 2015. In particular, anti-Muslim hate groups demonstrated a 197% increase from 2015 to 2016, likely due to Trump's anti-Muslim rhetoric and recent Islamic extremist attacks.



South Asian Americans Leading Together: Power, Pain, Potential: South Asian Americans at the Forefront of Growth and Hate in the 2016 Election Cycle

SAALT's latest report observes, with disappointment, that some members of American society continue to imagine members of South Asian, Middle Eastern, Arab, Muslim, Sikh, and Hindu communities as monolithic and pernicious. Trump's xenophobic and anti-Muslim rhetoric during the 2016 presidential election only inflamed these attitudes. SAALT argues that the increase in hate crimes against these communities over the past year is connected to the inflammatory rhetoric of the 2016 election and its aftermath.

In November 2015, SAALT established an online database of hate incidents directed at South Asian, Middle Eastern, Arab, Muslim, Sikh, and Hindu victims. From its creation to November 15, 2016, SAALT documented 140 incidents of hate violence, 94% of which were anti-Muslim in nature. The report also highlights the use of xenophobic and anti-Muslim rhetoric by Donald Trump and explores its correlation to discriminatory policies.

SAALT urges political leaders to address hate crimes by improving policies, legislation, and reporting mechanisms related to profiling and hate crimes. Additionally, the report encourages Americans to support civic engagement and political education both within and without South Asian, Middle Eastern, Arab, Muslim, Sikh, and Hindu communities.



Anti-Defamation League: Murder and Extremism in the United States in 2016

While far-right violence cannot be ignored in these times, many forms of extremism festered even before the election. Domestic Islamic extremists and black nationalist extremists, as well as right-wing anti-government, anti-abortion, and white supremacist extremists, were responsible for acts of violence in 2016, according to a new ADL report.

The shadow of the 2016 Pulse massacre in Orlando hung over ADL's latest report on extremist violence. The Anti-Defamation League's preliminary tally of murders committed by domestic extremists in 2016 was 69 known killings (49 victims killed by Omar Mateen during the mass shooting at Pulse nightclub and 20 victims killed by other extremists). The death toll of the Pulse shooting allowed 2016 to exceed 2015's tally of domestic extremist killings.

The ADL reminded readers that while extremist murders make up a small percentage of all killings in the U.S., they signify the presence of extremist networks that perpetrate other crimes.

"It is important to note that the number of Americans killed by domestic extremists is small compared to the total number of murders in the United States or even the number of those who die from gun violence each year. But these deaths represent merely the tip of a pyramid of extremist violence and crime in this country. For every person killed at the hands of an extremist, many more are wounded or injured in attempted murders and assaults. Every year, police uncover and prevent a wide variety of extremist plots and conspiracies with lethal intentions. And extremists engage in a wide variety of other crimes related to their causes, from threats and harassment to white collar crime."

Americans must address this increase in hateful rhetoric and hate violence. Now more than ever, it's important to stay informed about hate crime trends, take steps in our communities to promote inclusion, help victims secure services, and call out hate speech.

News Tidbits

Huffington Post: Trans Pastor To Texas Bathroom Bill Supporters: ‘Stop Using God As An Excuse To Hate People’

Reuters: Amateur historian 'blew open locked doors' by exposing Irish babies' mass grave

Gay Star News: Philippines: LGBT rights are not natural rights says Christian pastor

Pink News: Franklin Graham claims Oscar-winning Moonlight is seducing kids into gay ‘lifestyle choices’

News Tidbits

Huffington Post: Judge Denies ACLU’s Motion To Recoup Legal Fees From Marriage Equality Battle

LGBTQ Nation: Kentucky lawmakers vote to give students a license to discriminate

Reuters: Texas lieutenant governor calls on Christians to support bathroom bill

Associated Press: Ex-sect members tell AP that prosecutors obstructed abuse cases

News Tidbits

Associated Press: Victims, Roman Catholic Church spar over New York sex abuse bill

Associated Press: Connecticut lawmakers consider banning conversion therapy

ABC News: Gay conversion therapy advocates heartened by Pence, Republican electoral victories

Reuters: Ireland: Baby remains found at former Church-run home for unmarried mothers

Pink News: Christian bakers battling ‘gay cake’ fine, despite taking $500,000 donations to pay it

LGBTQ Nation: ACLU demands documents to show Trump’s plans for ‘religious’ discrimination

WRAL: Franklin Graham calls for Beauty and the Beast boycott over gay character

Commentary Tidbits

Christopher Stroop: Educated Evangelicals, Academic Achievement, and Trumpism

The New Yorker: Christian Bakers, Gay Weddings, and a Question for the Supreme Court

Right Wing Watch: The Rise of the ‘Traditionalist International’: How the American Right Learned to Love Moscow in the Era of Trump

HIV Plus: Why Do Some Countries Disapprove of Homosexuality?

The Advocate: What Even Is 'Traditional Marriage'?

News Tidbits

PRRI: Americans’ Double Standard on Religious Violence

Newsweek: The Harrowing Story of Life Inside Alabama's Most Sadistic Christian Bootcamp (Trigger warning)

GQ: Peter Popoff, the Born-Again Scoundrel

LGBTQ Nation: Colorado tries to pass conversion therapy ban for minors again

New York Times: As Funds Invoke Bible Values, Others See Intolerance

Los Angeles Times: Meet Daryle Jenkins, the activist who digs up dirt on the far-right

Associated Press: North Carolina: Ex-congregants reveal years of ungodly abuse  (Trigger warning)

Associated Press: Pope quietly trims sanctions for sex abusers seeking mercy

Washington Post: Antiabortion bills forcing doctors to push ‘junk science’ spread across country

Washington Post: ‘She was demonized’: Nicaraguan woman dies after being thrown into fire in exorcism ritual  (Trigger warning)

Commentary Tidbits

Vox: The Handmaid’s Tale is a handbook for surviving oppressive systems

Inter Press Service: The United Nations and the Religious Right

Media Matters for America: The Breitbartification Of CPAC

The Advocate: The National Organization for Marriage May Be Collapsing Before Our Eyes

Today's Orange Horrors, and Glimmers of Hope

Rally in front of the White House to protest #Trump's decision to rescind protections for #Trans youth. Shame, @POTUS! #protecttranskids pic.twitter.com/FverZrzKYo

— Reggie Greer (@rwgreer) February 23, 2017

Associated Press: DHS report disputes threat from banned nations

ABC News: White House chief of staff urged FBI to dispute Trump-Russia report

Washington Post: Trump administration sought to enlist intelligence officials, key lawmakers to counter Russia stories 

Washington Post: In first month of Trump presidency, State Department has been sidelined

New York Times: Rex Tillerson Arrives in Mexico Facing Twin Threats to Relations

The Hill: Trump: FBI ‘totally unable’ to stop leaks 

CNN: White House blocks news organizations from press briefing



Resistance to the Trump administration remains strong.

Reuters: One month in, anti-Trump movement shows signs of sustained momentum

Huffington Post: There’s About To Be A Dance Protest At The White House To Celebrate Trans Youth

Haaretz: Palestinians Hurl Shoes 'At Trump's Face' as They Protest Symbol of Israeli Occupation 

Esquire: A Conversation with the CPAC Protester Waving That TRUMP Russian Flag

The Oregonian: Counter-protest planned for Lake Oswego 'March 4 Trump'

Soulforce Organizing Direct Action During Proclaim 17 Convention in Orlando

Proclaim 17, the International Christian Media Convention, will take place from February 27th to March 2nd at the Orlando World Center Marriott in Orlando, Florida. The Proclaim convention is the annual gathering of National Religious Broadcasters (NRB), a network of conservative Christian media professionals. Judging by its homophobic code of ethics, the recipients of its awards and its positions on Trump administration policies, Israel, the Johnson Amendment, and "religious freedom", the NRB is very much part of the Religious Right.

Proclaim 17 offers Christian media professionals an opportunity to network and develop new strategies for engaging with audiences. While much of the convention's content focuses on technology, outreach, and industry trends, some of its workshops have a decidedly right-leaning flavor.

• Is Transformation Really Possible for Persons with Same Sex Attraction? (presented by Anne Paulk of Restored Hope Network, an "ex-gay" ministry)


• The Fight for Religious Freedom and the Future of the Courts (presented by Ryan T. Anderson and Roger Severino of the Heritage Foundation)


• Personal Attacks on First Amendment Freedoms and What May Lie Ahead (presented by Todd Starnes of Fox News and the Benham brothers)


• Pastors Lunch: Shall We Talk About Islam? (featuring no Muslim speakers, oddly enough)


• The Human Cost of the Attack on Religious Freedom


• What Does the Trump Presidency Mean for Christian Radio?

Let's not ignore the convention's speakers, who include right-wing figures such as Alliance Defending Freedom founder Alan Sears, Focus on the Family founder James Dobson, anti-abortion activist Alveda King, David and Jason Benham, and homophobic ex-Atlanta fire chief Kelvin Cochran.

Writing at the Advocate, L. Cole Parke observes that both NRB and many of the organizations participating in Proclaim 17 are opposed to LGBTQ equality. The fact that Proclaim 17 will take place in Orlando, the location of last year's devastating Pulse massacre, makes the participants' homophobia even more painful to behold.






Fortunately, Soulforce is organizing a direct action during the convention under the hashtags #StopKillingUs and #KeepPulseAlive. According to their website, Soulforce will be honor Pulse victims with a Living Altar of paper doves while "bringing healing, witness, joy, and resistance to the leading Christian Right Wing communicators who are killing our people."

"The National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) is a Right-Wing communications network with 1400+ member stations broadcasting around the world. Their annual meeting will be hosted this year in Orlando, FL during which thousands of members and supporters will convene to strategize, network, and gain skills to further their aggressive anti-LGBTQI and anti-Muslim agenda that broadcasts to the world.

Soulforce invites all those who are willing and able, both in Florida and everywhere, to hold vigil over this Living Altar with us in Orlando as we honor our dead and challenge the power of this communications hub to harm our bodies and spirits with death-dealing rhetoric.

Soulforce, in partnership with local and regional organizations, is collecting doves from around the world to join our Living Altar. These doves symbolize those who were made ancestors at the Pulse Nightclub Massacre in Orlando in June 2016."

As the Religious Right explores ways to promote its agenda through broadcasting in Orlando, people of conscience will be holding them accountable for their bigotry. Soulforce's direct action will serve as another reminder that the Religious Right will encounter resistance to its intolerance.

News Tidbits

Washington Post: CPAC organizer denounces ‘alt-right’ as ‘left-wing fascist group’

Politico: White nationalist leader kicked out of CPAC

New York Times: Milo Yiannopoulos’s Pedophilia Comments Cost Him CPAC Role and Book Deal

NPR: Lack Of Education Leads To Lost Dreams And Low Income For Many Jehovah's Witnesses 

Associated Press: Kentucky ark attraction adding biblical truth exhibit

Associated Press: Rhode Island lawmakers propose banning anti-gay therapy

Gay Star News: North Carolina: Burglar broke into gay-friendly church to graffiti Bible verses condemning 'wrong-doers'

CBC News: Local Christian leaders don't want evangelist Franklin Graham speaking in Vancouver

CBC: Trinity Western law school fight heading to Supreme Court of Canada

Pink News: Australia: Anti-LGBT activist invited the whole internet to his rally and it didn’t end well

The Guardian: 'The exorcism was over in 15 minutes but nothing changed': LGBT life in Nigeria

Commentary Tidbits

Politico: CPAC’s Identity Crisis

Right Wing Watch: It’s Not Just Milo: Five Of The Wildest CPAC Speakers

Bilerico Report: In Trump’s America, Christian proselytizing is another form of oppression

CBS News: Milo Yiannopoulos and the conservative implosion 

The Atlantic: The Christian Retreat From Public Life

The Advocate: Resisting the Christian Right in Orlando

Media Matters for America: The Biggest Myth About Anti-LGBTQ Hate Groups Debunked

Today's Orange Horrors, and Glimmers of Hope

This is how Stonewall looks like at #protecttranskids rally after Trump rescinded federal instructions for protections to trans students. pic.twitter.com/MpvPWJLPbq

— Samy Nemir Olivares (@Samynemir) February 23, 2017

Newsweek: Amnesty International Calls Out Trump's 'Poisonous' Rhetoric

The Advocate: Education Department's LGBT Employees Make Plea to DeVos

PRI: Trump’s pick for ambassador to Israel ‘regrets’ Holocaust-related slur

CBS News: Amid growing calls for action, Trump addresses JCC threats, anti-Semitism

Washington Post: Anne Frank Center slams Trump: ‘Do not make us Jews settle for crumbs of condescension’

Washington Post: Thousands of emails detail EPA head’s close ties to fossil fuel industry

CNN: British MP on Trump: My daughter deserves better

Associated Press: Pence tries to reassure European leaders shaken by Trump

Reuters: Trump to reverse Obama-era environmental rules in executive orders: report

NBC News: DHS Outlines Crackdown on Illegal Immigration


Positive news stories continue to give us hope.

Fox 5 New York: New Yorkers rally at Stonewall for transgender rights

Reuters: Norway pledges $10 million to counter Trump's global anti-abortion move

Business Insider: Ginsburg says public reaction to Trump gives her 'hope'