Late Sunday night, a
federal court barred the Obama administration from enforcing a set of
guidelines instructing states and localities on how to accommodate transgender
students attending public schools. The
judge in the case, U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor, of the Northern District
of Texas, enjoined the policies nationally and blocked the federal government
from conducting any litigation or attempting to bring school districts in
compliance with them. Joining me today
to talk all about the ruling and the impact it will have to transgender
students across the country is Ari Ezra Waldman who is an Associate Professor of Law at New York Law School and the
Legal Editor at Towleroad.com.
For
most of our country’s history, white Protestant Christians primarily set the tone
for our national policy and shaped American ideals and culture. However, since the 1990s, this demographic
group has steadily lost influence, following declines within both its mainline
and evangelical branches to the point where America is no longer demographically
or culturally a majority white Christian nation. In his new book The End of White Christian America Robert P. Jones, the CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute
(PRRI), draws on more than four decades of polling data to better understand
the profound political and cultural consequences of this new reality. Robert joins me on the show today to talk all
about the book and the ways that white Protestant Christians might adjust to
find their place in the new America.
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