<em>The Atlantic</em> Daily: Rules and Religion
What We’re Following
Religious Liberty: In a government-wide memo, Attorney General Jeff Sessions instructed U.S. agencies to give greater weight to religious-liberty claims for exemption from federal laws and regulations. The new guidance is intended to protect religious liberty, but risks leaving women and LGBT Americans more vulnerable to discrimination. Accordingly, the Trump administration also reversed the Affordable Care Act’s mandate that employers cover birth control, a key piece of the legislation that religious institutions had long contested.
In the wake of Sunday’s shooting in Las Vegas, some politicians for the victims and their families, prompting others’ anger that they’d failed to translate sympathy into political action. Yet sincere thoughts and prayers to develop the focus and empathy they need to—and the common-sense solutions they risk obscuring.
