Mark Wingfield
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Hegseth plans Pentagon Office of Religious Affairs (opens the original)
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U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth plans to create an Office of Religious Affairs within the Pentagon that will “strengthen the moral, ethical and spiritual readiness of our warfighters.” Hegseth announced the new office Sept. 30 in a speech laden with aggressive language of lethality along with derision for those do don’t fit his vision of model military men. “No fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals,” he said of the people he believes have no place in the mili
Tennessee botches another execution (opens the original)
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For the second time in four months, Tennessee’s death penalty protocol has failed to work. On Wednesday, Sept. 30, inmate Christa Pike was “alive and loudly snoring after the attempted lethal injection and taken by ambulance from the prison,” her attorney told Associated Press. Her condition was unknown late Wednesday evening. Just weeks ago, 40 health care professionals sent a letter to Gov. Bill Lee warning Tennessee’s execution protocol is medically unethical and should be revamped before fur
EEOC demands religious accommodation for anti-trans employee (opens the original)
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The Trump administration’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sided with a disgruntled employee who refused to use another employee’s desired gender pronouns. The EEOC announced Sept. 30 it has reached a settlement with Generac Power Systems, a Wisconsin generator manufacturer, where a Baptist employee was fired for refusing to use the requested pronouns of a transgender employee. Spencer Wimmer (via Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty) According to a news release from Wisconsin Ins
Judge tosses some of Sills case but allows parts to proceed to trial (opens the original)
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Parts of Davd Sills’ defamation case against the Southern Baptist Convention and several of its leaders have been dismissed by a federal judge while other parts will head to trial — short of an out-of-court settlement. U.S. District Judge William L. Campbell Jr. issued the ruling Sept. 29 in response to motions for summary judgment in favor of the various defendants. He sits on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. Judge William Campbell (Source: Wikipedia) Campbell allow
Fact check: Yes, Talarico’s grandfather was a Baptist pastor (opens the original)
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James Talarico’s grandfather was a “moderate” Baptist pastor in the Southern Baptist Convention, and that’s why his grandson is so liberal, Al Mohler claims. On the June 2 episode of Mohler’s “The Briefing” podcast, the president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary dissed both Talarico, a Democratic U.S. Senate candidate from Texas, and his grandfather. The headline on the transcript of Mohler’s podcast says, “Talarico’s Grandfather was a ‘Moderate’ SBC Pastor in the 1960s, and It Shows in
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