In Other News: University officials held ‘personally liable’ for discrimination against Christian student group; It’s been two years since the MeToo movement exploded. Now what?

Published 7:38 pm Monday, September 30, 2019

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No need to cut back on red meat? Controversial new ‘guidelines’ lead to outrage

A new set of analyses published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine challenges the widespread recommendations to cut back on red and processed meats. The prominent medical journal has also published a new recommendation from a panel of scientists, many of whom are not nutrition experts: “The panel suggests adults continue current processed meat consumption,” according to the guideline paper. In other words: no need to cut back. — NPR

University officials held ‘personally liable’ for discrimination against Christian student group

A federal court ruled University of Iowa officials must pay out of their own pockets for discriminating against a prominent Christian student group, calling the university’s conduct “ludicrous” and “incredibly baffling” during a hearing last week. Judge Stephanie M. Rose of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa ruled Friday that the University of Iowa and its officers violated constitutional law when they kicked InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, and other religious groups, off the campus in June 2018 for requiring leaders to uphold Christian beliefs — but giving a pass to secular student groups that also have leadership requirements. — Fox News

It’s been two years since the MeToo movement exploded. Now what?

When #MeToo exploded in the fall of 2017, its most optimistic promise was that it would become more than a hashtag, more than a brief interruption in America’s regularly scheduled sexism, more than a reckoning for famous men who had abused wealthy, white women. There were front-page headlines, explosions of long-stifled rage and examinations of collective complicity. There was hope those two small words signaled the beginning of meaningful change and, eventually, healing — a belief the silence was finally broken. Has #MeToo delivered? — USA Today

City says man killed by police in case of mistaken identity had no constitutional rights because he wasn’t a citizen

An attorney for a city in Mississippi said in court documents a man who was shot by police in a case of mistaken identity has no Fourth or 14th Amendment protections because he was not a U.S. citizen. Ismael Lopez was shot and killed at his mobile home in July 2017 after police mixed up his address with that of a man wanted for domestic assault. Murray Wells, an attorney representing Lopez’s family, said an investigation commissioned by his firm revealed that Lopez died of a single bullet to the back of the head. — CNN