Politics

In an exchange with Dutch journalists, Peter Hoekstra declined to clarify his prior remarks. “This is the Netherlands, you have to answer questions,” one reporter said. Source: Pressed on False Claims About Muslims, U.S. Ambassador Goes Silent - The New...

(AP) — The Supreme Court is refusing to intervene in a legal fight over a Mississippi law that lets government workers and private businesspeople cite their own religious beliefs to deny services to LGBT people. Source: Justices won’t step into...

Source: Is Trump widening a rift between the evangelicals and Mideast Christians? | Religion News Service

Since the founding of the republic, there have been dozens of Protestant ministers in Congress, and a handful serve right now. Two Catholic priests, too, have served in the House of Representatives. But despite the large number of Jews elected to Congress...