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You may be interested in the most recent content from the DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society:
 

Joe Biden Wants a Culture Warrior at HHS. That's a Big Mistake. <[link removed]>
The National Interest
Melanie Israel, Research Associate, The DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society
Xavier Becerra is simply not qualified for the position he’s been nominated to fill. Even if he were, his years of hostility to fundamental rights of conscience and free speech demonstrate a clear record that is incompatible with leading an agency whose role includes protecting those very rights.



Parental Rights, Gender Ideology, and the Equality Act <[link removed]>
Issue Brief, The Heritage Foundation
Melissa Moschella, PhD, Visiting Scholar, Simon Center for American Studies
The Equality Act is not about ending unjust discrimination—instead, it is about imposing a radical ideology with sweeping implications on all Americans. The affirmation of biological reality is neither bigotry nor discrimination. And the desire to protect children from confusion or from harmful experimental “treatments” is neither abuse nor neglect: On the contrary, it is a fundamental right and duty of parents rooted in the natural moral law and upheld by the Constitution. Adoption of the Equality Act would not be a victory for civil rights. It would be the imposition of a contested and dangerous ideology on all Americans. The rights of parents and the welfare of children would be among the most tragic casualties.
 
The Equality Act Would Make Protecting Your Child An Act Of Bigotry <[link removed]>
The Federalist
Melissa Moschella, PhD, Visiting Scholar, Simon Center for American Studies
Protecting children from confusion or from harmful experimental 'treatments' is neither abuse nor neglect, but under the Equality Act it would be treated as such.
  
Equality Act Would Cancel Religious Freedom <[link removed]>
The Daily Signal
Thomas Jipping, Deputy Director & Sr. Legal Fellow, Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, The Heritage Foundation; with Sarah Parshall Perry, Legal Fellow, Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, The Heritage Foundation
Excising the Religious Freedom Restoration Act from the Civil Rights Act of 1964 means that religious freedom must always give way to the Equality Act's destructive gender ideology.


The DeVos Center Joins the Fight Against Gender Theory in the UN
This week the DeVos Center joined two statements to the UN's Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI
IE) for his
upcoming report on gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity, which will focus on “gender theory.” One was led by the Women’s Liberation Front, which can be found here <[link removed]>; the other was
submitted by the International Organization for the Family.
 
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Institute for Family, Community and Opportunity
The Heritage Foundation

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