RELIGION HEADLINES SUN 11-16-25

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(SRN NEWS)  A Virginia transportation security officer is accusing the Department of Homeland Security of sex discrimination over a policy that bars men who are living as women from performing security screening pat-downs on actual women.  The Transportation Security Administration enacted the policy in February to comply with President Trump’s executive order declaring two unchangeable sexes: male and female.  A transgender officer at Dulles International Airport in Virginia alleges that the policy — which also bars him from using the women’s bathroom at TSA facilities —  violates his civil rights. 

(  )  The world’s dwindling community of Holocaust survivors is issuing a warning about the current surge in global anti-Semitism.  Walter Bingham, who was 14 years old when the Holocaust began, says “We live in an era equivalent to 1938, where synagogues are burned, and people in the street are attacked.”  Assaults on Jews have increased dramatically since Hamas launched its attack on Israel in 2023, according to the annual report on global anti-Semitism from Tel Aviv University.  There are approximately 200,000 Holocaust survivors around the world, but 70 percent are expected to pass away in the next decade.  

(  )  Legal experts say the Supreme Court’s decision not to revisit gay marriage this term is likely to be permanent, unless some of the sitting justices step down.  Chief Justice John Roberts voted against legalizing homosexual unions in 2015, but has since remained silent on the subject.  Justice Samuel Alito has continued to criticize the decision, but he said recently that he was not advocating that it be overturned.  Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who was not on the court in 2015, has said that the decision may need to be left in place because people now rely on the ruling when they marry and have children. 

(  )  A group of 17 transgender members of the Air Force is suing over what they claim is the military’s unlawful revocation of their early retirement pensions and benefits.  The lawsuit comes several months after the Air Force confirmed that it would deny all transgender service members who have served less than two years the option to retire early and would instead separate them without retirement benefits.  Shortly after coming to office, President Trump issued a ban on transgenderism in the military.  LGBT pressure groups are suing, but the Supreme Court is allowing the ban to be enforced while the case moves through the courts.