​​​​​​​During the Values Voter Summit over the weekend, leaders and followers of the Religious Right made clear they plan to continue their attempts to weaponize religious freedom as a means to justify discrimination, particularly against LGBTQ people and women.

Notice one thing about all of the comments by these self-appointed guardians of morality: Not one of them has expressed one iota of concern for what happened to Ford. Her trauma and pain mean nothing to them, nor does the considerable risk she undertook by stepping forward to tell her story.

The Values Voter Summit should serve as motivation for me and everyone else who believes in church-state separation. As long as there is a VVS and people who want to undermine religious freedom, there will be an Americans United for Separation of Church and State and likeminded supporters who are determined to protect it.

Creationists have been trying to water down evolution in public schools at least since the Scopes trial. And they only pretend to be champions of critical thinking. Their plan is to offer students a choice between accepted, verifiable science and an account based on a narrow, fundamentalist interpretation of the Bible that even plenty of Christians reject.