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It’s Sunday. With my family, I’m watching online services by the Unitarian Society of New Haven. I’m doing this after having watched a video of an Amish family singing and praying and protesting in Minneapolis the murder of George Floyd by a white cop. Together, these get me to wondering if what we’re seeing is…

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It’s Sunday. With my family, I’m watching online services by the Unitarian Society of New Haven. I’m doing this after having watched a video of an Amish family singing and praying and protesting in Minneapolis the murder of George Floyd by a white cop. Together, these get me to wondering if what we’re seeing is…

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In today’s edition of the Editorial Board, I explain how the Washington press corps, in its aim to be fair and balanced, ends up erasing champions of religious liberty by making the Republicans appear to be the only champions of religious liberty. Case in point: the George Floyd protests featured dozens maybe hundreds of clergy…

Whitewashing religious Democrats

Here are Senate Democrats kneeling in prayer as they honored today the memory of George Floyd with nine minutes of silence. I find this picture moving as well as instructive. It’s not supposed to exist. Democrats can’t exercise faith, because Democrats don’t have any faith, according to people like Dan Patrick, the lt. governor of…

Are cops being sincere?

In the Monday edition of the Editorial Board, I noted the different ways police departments are handling public outrage, some of it violent, over the murder of George Floyd by a white cop in Minneapolis. Some are flying the Thin Blue Line flag, a symbol of American fascism, while others, including here in New Haven,…