RELIGION HEADLINES THR 2-12

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(  )  The Trump administration has stopped flying a rainbow flag at the Stonewall National Monument — the country’s first federal monument to the Gay Pride movement.  The flag was taken down from a flagpole on the National Park Service-run site, which centers on a tiny park in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village.  The Park Service says it’s simply complying with recent guidance that clarifies long standing flag policies and applies them consistently.  A January Park Service memo largely restricts the agency to flying the flags of the United States, the Department of the Interior and the POW/MIA flag.  The monument was established during the Biden administration.

(  )  President Trump is planning to withhold some public health and transportation money from a group of Democratic-led states over their continued promotion of transgenderism and DEI.  Full details have not been released, but the administration is reportedly looking at California, Colorado, Illinois and Minnesota.  The offices of the governors of all four states say they have not received any communication from the Trump administration about the plans.  The President campaigned on a promise to keep taxpayer dollars from funding the promotion of the LGBT agenda and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs.

(  )  A new report finds that one-in-three Jews in this country was the target of an anti-Semitic incident in 2025.  According to data from the American Jewish Committee, this is the same percentage as 2024.  The poll also reveals that more than half of Jews are changing their behaviors to try and mask the fact that they are Jewish for fear of being discriminated against, or worse.  Ted Deutch (DOY-ch), who is CEO of the AJC, tells the Jewish Telegraphic Agency “Things aren’t getting markedly better.  I don’t think that we can afford to accept it as a baseline.  We can’t accept that, and America shouldn’t accept that.”

(  )  The U.S. and Hungarian governments are teaming up to combat persecution of Christians.  The State Department says the new partnership will focus on “supporting Christians and people of faith facing persecution, particularly in the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa.”  Religious freedom groups are cheering the announcement.  International Christian Concern says it is “promising, and has the potential to have a meaningful impact in these regions.  We eagerly encourage one or both of these governments to follow up this announcement in the near future with the specific steps they plan to take towards this noble goal.”