The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/category/perspectives/editorial)
A federal settlement protecting Christian employers and a Southern Baptist appeal to the Justice Department raise a broader question: Will the government’s expanding religious-liberty framework offer minority faiths the same protections in the workplace?
As trans Americans face escalating legal restrictions, religious liberty is being invoked not as protection for minorities but as justification for exclusion. For Pagan traditions that affirm gender diversity, the implications are profound.
“When contemporary commentators describe authoritarian politics as ‘pagan,'” writes Manny Moreno, “they risk reinforcing an exclusionary narrative: that Christianity civilized power, while paganism represented brute force. That binary not only oversimplifies history; it marginalizes living religious minorities.”
Weekend Editor Eric O. Scott comments on the ongoing federal siege of Minneapolis and St. Paul and the efforts of ordinary people to protect their neighbors, even in the face of death.
National Religious Freedom Day marks a legal tradition meant to restrain government power over belief. But the 2026 proclamation signals a shift, recasting religious liberty from constitutional protection into a state-driven project promoting public faith and privileging one religious tradition.
Weekend editor Eric O. Scott reflects on events that unfolded this weekend. As bombs fell and political justifications followed, Venezuelan civilians paid the price. Venezuela is not an abstraction or a geopolitical chessboard, but a real place, filled with real people whose lives were extinguished without warning. This editorial examines power, accountability, and the moral cost of treating distant suffering as disposable.
