MSNBC political analyst and former Obama administration official Richard Stengel argued that America needs to outlaw hateful speech, including Koran burning. 
A federal judge struck down a regulation that would have required medical providers receiving federal funding to perform abortions and gender transition surgeries regardless of their personal beliefs, a major victory for religious liberty advocates. 
An MSNBC panel praised Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) for being "so authentic" after the 2020 candidate went viral for her answer to a campaign donor's question about same-sex marriage at a CNN town hall. 
South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg said on Sunday that former congressman Beto O'Rourke does not understand the implications of stripping tax exempt status from churches which oppose LGBTQ rights. 
Presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke (D., Texas) said he would strip religious institutions of their tax exempt status if they oppose same-sex marriage.
A federal court ruled that Michigan’s Democratic attorney general demonstrated discriminatory “hostility” when she attempted to crack down on religious foster care agencies.
Arizona Supreme Court ruled that the city of Phoenix cannot coerce Joanna Duka and Breanna Koski, owners of custom invitation designing business Brush & Nib, to provide a service that violates their religious beliefs. 
An atheist group is petitioning to remove a prisoner of war's Bible from a New Hampshire Veterans Administration hospital in a lawsuit that has drawn the attention of top White House officials. 
Two Philadelphia foster mothers are asking the Supreme Court to defend religious adoption agencies from a city policy that would declare them discriminatory and shut them down. 
The State Department's second Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom held this past week coincided with the 20th anniversary of the beginning of the Chinese government's persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, and a report from the Falun Dafa Information Center outlines the depredations believers have suffered. 