PCUSA Official Compares Transgender Ban to Racial Discrimination
(By Peter Johnson, Juicy Ecumenism). The Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson, Stated Clerk of the Presbyterian Church (USA), released a statement criticizing President Donald Trump’s recent decision to ban transgender people from serving in the military. In it, he compared the transgender ban to the racial discrimination practiced by the military prior to 1948. Many civil rights advocates have been…