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The University of Michigan’s medical center has agreed to pay $410,000 in damages to a physician assistant it fired after she requested a religious exemption from referring patients for sex-change treatments. The settlement with former employee Valerie Kloosterman requires University of Michigan Health-West to create a policy for religious accommodations, train employees in how to obtain them and grant them in reasonable cases “without retaliation.” (File Photo credit: Joseph Hendrickson via Shutterstock)

University of Michigan hospital to pay $410,000 to physician assistant it fired over LGBTQ exemption

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

Classroom, desks, chalkboard. (Photo credit: miya227 via Shutterstock) ** FILE **

Calif. school district sued after requiring fifth-graders tutor kindergarteners on gender identity

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

In this file photo, Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Oxon Hill, Md., Feb. 23, 2017. Dick Durbin, D-IL, is calling for conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from any case associated with the religious liberty legal group, First Liberty Institute. The recusal call comes after an outlet reported that Justice Thomas’ wife had thanked the leader of the organization for opposing Supreme Court reforms. “You guys have filled the sails of many judges. Can I just tell you, thank you so, so, so much,” she reportedly wrote in all caps in an email. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Senate Democrat urges Justice Thomas’ recusal in religious liberty disputes after wife’s comments

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Washington Metro (WMATA) bus advertisement discrimination illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

Discrimination on wheels: Washington Metro blocks Christian advertisements

By Jeremy Dys

Bremerton High School assistant football coach Joe Kennedy, center in blue, kneels and prays after his team lost to Centralia in Bremerton, Wash., Oct. 16, 2015. Across America, most high school football seasons are winding down. It will wrap up the first year since the Supreme Court ruled it was OK for a public school coach near Seattle to pray on the field. (Lindsey Wasson/The Seattle Times via AP, File)

Christian legal group campaigns to restore prayer, affirmations of faith to public square

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough speaks during the Military Women's Memorial 25th anniversary celebration at Arlington National Cemetery, Oct. 15, 2022, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

VA says accommodation for abortions always in place, but record is silent

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

A doctor uses a hand-held Doppler probe on a pregnant woman to measure the heartbeat of the fetus on Dec. 17, 2021, in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

VA does about-face, grants religious exemptions from abortion services

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

CORRECTS DATE A women's march group member dons a kangaroo mask and judicial robe, Wednesday, March 15, 2023 in Amarillo, Texas. A federal judge in Texas appointed by former President Donald Trump is considering a request by a Christian conservative group to overturn the Food and Drug Administration’s more than 2-decade-old approval of the abortion pill mifepristone. (AP Photo/David Erickson)

Judge weighing abortion pill is favorite of conservatives

By Lindsay Whitehurst and Alanna Durkin Richer - Associated Press

Illustration on health care provider religious freedom and gender change therapy by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

The government needs to respect the consciences of faith-based health care providers

By Kayla Toney

U.S. military members and COVID-19 vaccine restrictions illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

As the world moves past COVID-19 restrictions, military members are still losing their careers

By Danielle Runyan

A Jew blows a shofar, ram's horn, while others pray as they perform Tasklikh, a Rosh Hashanah ritual for casting sins upon the waters, in front of the Mediterranean sea, in Ashdod, Israel, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011. Tasklikh is when Jews symbolically throw their sins into moving water during the New Year holiday of Rosh Hashana. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Los Angeles County Rosh Hashanah coronavirus crackdown spurs backlash

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Shields of Strength, dog tag with Bible verse seller, calls Army ban unconstitutional

By Christopher Vondracek - The Washington Times

The vast Grand Canyon has no room for research on biblical beliefs, according to a lawsuit filed by a Christian geologist. (Associated Press/File)

Andrew Snelling, geologist, claims Grand Canyon religious discrimination

By Bradford Richardson - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Thursday Nov. 10, 2016 file photo, from left, Celeste Ramirez, 20, Erin Ckodre , 21, Ronald Elliott, 18, Patricia Romo, 22, and Rose Ammons, 18, hold up signs during a rally at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas, to protest Donald Trump's presidential election victory. For the combatants in America's long-running culture wars, the triumph of Trump and congressional Republicans was stunning _ sparking elation on one side, deep dismay on the other. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

Trump win resets culture war debate on abortion, LGBT rights

By DAVID CRARY and RACHEL ZOLL - Associated Press

The highest U.S. military court has upheld the bad conduct discharge of a Marine who refused to remove Bible verses from her workstation. (Associated Press)

Monifa Sterling’s bad conduct discharge from Marines for posting Bible verses upheld

By Bradford Richardson - The Washington Times

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's remarks on his Facebook page, regarding the planned construction of an immense cross in Corpus Christi, Texas. ** FILE **

San Antonio atheist drops lawsuit over ‘tallest cross in America’

By Bradford Richardson - The Washington Times