POLITICS: ‘Religion’ of anti-religionists, good moms vs. suspicious schools and other commentary

Biologist: The ‘Religion’ of Anti-Religionists

“I resigned” from the Freedom From Religion Foundation, explains Jerry A. Coyne at The Wall Street Journal, because it had “abandoned science.” In November, it posted an essay “denying the basic biological fact that all animals, including humans, have only two sexes.” It ran his rebuttal, “Biology is not bigotry,” but quickly took it down saying that was an error in judgment. “In many ways, transgender ideology is no different from the religious dogma the FFRF was founded to oppose.” It tars dissenters as “transphobes,” silences critics and “proselytizes” in schools; proponents deem themselves “morally correct.” In fact, “biological sex is a scientific issue,” but the FFRF has “abandoned science” for an “embrace of quasireligious” dogma, so “I’m proud to proclaim myself a heretic.”

Ed desk: Good Moms vs. Suspicious Schools

Pennsylvania mom Anne Trethewey is “the face of a growing band of parents fighting to force better transparency and accountability in their children’s schools,” notes The Free Press’ Frannie Block. In 2020, she began attending school board meetings after the district started indoctrinating kids with DEI. With other local parents she joined activist group Moms for Liberty and started asking questions. In 2023 the district nixed her request for info by “arguing that the DEI training materials couldn’t be shared with the public because they were ‘trade secrets.’ ” State courts rejected that claim in February; now the local court must decide “whether the DEI training materials could be considered ‘confidential proprietary information.’ ” Trethewey “still can’t access the materials she requested more than two years ago,” but “she has no intention of backing down.”

From the right: Federal Unions’ Poison Privilege

“Public sector unions have long been an affront to democratic accountability at all levels of government,” so “President Donald Trump’s executive order issued Thursday ending collective bargaining privileges for most federal agencies brings welcome focus to the issue,” cheers the Washington Examiner’s editorial board. “When government workers are given collective bargaining power, an equal and opposite amount of power has been taken away from voters.” Notably, “Trump wants to scrap” 11th-hour Biden deals with unions to let federal workers “continue to work remotely.” Trump’s new order will be fought in multiple court cases, and he “will not win them all.” Fact is, “Congress should work with the White House to remove the collective bargaining powers of all federal government employees.”

Foreign desk: Team Trump’s Unsung Latin Wins

The Trump administration “is focused heavily on Latin America,” with game-changing results, reports Arturo McFields at The Hill. “Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited Panama,” which resulted in the country deciding “to end the Belt and Road Initiative with China.” “During Rubio’s visit to El Salvador, the Central American country offered to receive and reimprison criminals.” Meanwhile, “Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem has also carried out a strategic visit to El Salvador, Colombia and Mexico,” building partnerships “to address migration, combat drug trafficking and reduce transnational crime.” Team Trump’s “extraordinary achievements are not making headlines, but they are making a significant difference in the Western Hemisphere.”

Conservative: Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran?

After President Trump said Sunday of Iran, “If they don’t make a deal, there will be bombing. It will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen before,” National Review’s Jim Geraghty observes: “As of Friday afternoon, there are at least five U.S. Air Force B-2 bombers at Diego Garcia,” the obvious base for hitting Iran. “That’s a quarter of the B-2s in the fleet,” and B-2s are “what the U.S. Air Force uses when it needs to drop very powerful bombs in a very stealthy manner.” Indeed, “the B-2 is the only plane that can carry” the Massive Ordinance Penetrator Bunker-Buster, “a 30,000 pound bomb that is described as ‘the most powerful and deeply burrowing non-nuclear bunker buster on earth.’ ”

— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board