Most members of the LGBTQ community know full well that their rights are under attack by President Donald Trump and the Religious Right and that only a decent distance between religion and government can fend off that aggressive religio-political movement.

Washington, D.C., and its suburbs in Maryland and Virginia form one of the most religiously diverse metropolitan areas in the United States. And yet the state of Maryland continues to display an enormous Christian cross just outside D.C. city limits in Bladensburg to memorialize war veterans.

Vouchers and other forms of private-school aid plans have been getting trounced at the ballot box since 1967.