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NEW YORK, SUNDAY, JUNE 28, 2015
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Next Fight for Gay Rights:
Bias in Jobs and Housing
Focus Turns to New Protections for Sexual
Orientation and Gender Identity
By ERIK ECKHOLM
ANDREA BRUCE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Alex, a 23-year-old from Washington State, received several gifts from a man who ushered her toward extremist beliefs.
ISIS and the Lonely Young American
In Coaxing Woman to Radicalism, Terror Group’s Allies Followed Playbook
By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI
Alex, a 23-year-old Sunday school teacher and babysitter, was trembling with excitement the day she told her Twitter followers that she had converted to Islam.
For months, she had been growing closer to a new group of friends online — the
most attentive she had ever had — who
were teaching her what it meant to be a
Muslim. Increasingly, they were telling
her about the Islamic State and how the
group was building a homeland in Syria
and Iraq where the holy could live according to God’s law.
One in particular, Faisal, had become
her nearly constant companion, spending
hours each day with her on Twitter, Skype
and email, painstakingly guiding her
through the fundamentals of the faith.
But when she excitedly told him that
she had found a mosque just five miles
from the home she shared with her grandparents in rural Washington State, he suddenly became cold.
The only Muslims she knew were those
she had met online, and he encouraged her
to keep it that way, arguing that Muslims
are persecuted in the United States. She
could be labeled a terrorist, he warned,
and for now it was best for her to keep her
conversion secret, even from her family.
So on his guidance, Alex began leading a
double life. She kept teaching at her
church, but her truck’s radio was no long-
er tuned to the Christian hits station. Instead, she hummed along with the ISIS anthems blasting out of her turquoise
iPhone, and began daydreaming about
what life with the militants might be like.
“I felt like I was betraying God and
Christianity,” said Alex, who spoke on the
condition that she be identified only by a
pseudonym she uses online. “But I also
felt excited because I had made a lot of
new friends.”
Even though the Islamic State’s ideology is explicitly at odds with the West, the
group is making a relentless effort to recruit Westerners, eager to exploit them for
their outsize propaganda value. Through
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Exhilarated by the Supreme
Court’s endorsement of same-sex
marriage, gay rights leaders
have turned their sights to what
they see as the next big battle:
obtaining federal, state and local
legal protections in employment,
housing, commerce and other
arenas, just like those barring
discrimination based on race, religion, sex and national origin.
The proposals pit advocates
against many of the same religious conservatives who opposed
legalizing same-sex marriage,
and who now see the protection
of what they call religious liberty
as their most urgent task. These
opponents argue that antidiscrimination laws will inevitably
be used to force religious people
and institutions to violate their
beliefs, whether by providing
services for same-sex weddings
or by employing gay men and lesbians in church-related jobs.
Nationally, antidiscrimination
laws for gay people are a patchwork with major geographic inequities, said Brad Sears, executive director of the Williams Institute at the School of Law of the
University of California, Los Angeles. “Those who don’t live on
the two coasts or in the Northeast
have been left behind in terms of
legal protection,” he said.
At least 22 states bar discrimination based on sexual orientation, and most of them also offer
protections to transgender people.
Tennessee is one of the majority of states that do not bar such
discrimination. There, in East
Nashville, Tiffany Cannon and
Lauren Horbal thought they had
found the perfect house to share
with a friend, and the landlord
seemed ready to rent when they
applied in April.
Then he called them to ask
what their relationship with each
other was, Ms. Horbal, 26, recalled.
She said that when the landlord learned that she and Ms.
Cannon, 25, were partners, he
said, “I’m not comfortable with
that.” He refused to process their
application, even after they offered to raise their rent by $150,
to $700 a month, Ms. Horbal said.
The women, both restaurant
workers, are still looking for a
place to live.
In many states, some local governments have antidiscrimination laws, but they are often weak
or poorly enforced, said Ruth
Colker, an expert on discriminaContinued on Page 20
NEWS ANALYSIS
As Left Wins,
G.O.P. Reflects
By JONATHAN MARTIN
WASHINGTON — A cascade
of events suggests that 2015 could
be remembered as a Liberal
Spring: the moment when deeply
divisive and consuming questions of race, sexuality and
broadened access to health care
were settled in quick succession,
and social tolerance was cemented as a cornerstone of American
public life.
Yet what appears, in headlines
and celebrations across the country, to represent an unalloyed victory for Democrats, in which lawmakers and judges alike seemed
to give in to the leftward shift of
public opinion, may contain an
opening for the Republican Party
to move beyond losing battles
and seemingly lost causes.
Conservatives have, in short
order, endured a series of setbacks on ideas that, for some on
the right, are definitional: that
marriage is between a man and a
woman, that Southern heritage
and its symbols are to be unambivalently revered and that the
federal government should play a
Continued on Page 17
Trying to Placate All, Iran Leader Southern Customs Yield to a New Age: ‘A Flag Is Not Worth a Job’
Zigs and Zags on Nuclear Talks
By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON
and RICHARD FAUSSET
By THOMAS ERDBRINK
TEHRAN — Persian carpets
were rolled out in the Beit-e Rahbar, the downtown Tehran offices
of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Tuesday, a
sign that important guests were
on their way.
One by one, members of Iran’s
establishment, politicians, clerics
and commanders filed in, many
exchanging the perfunctory
greetings of committed rivals.
They sat cross-legged and waited
anxiously, knowing a crucial
week of nuclear negotiations with
Western powers lay ahead and
not knowing what to expect from
Mr. Khamenei.
The red lights of the state television cameras blinked on and he
started speaking. He praised the
Iranian negotiating team as great
patriots and wise men. Then he
reversed field, specifying seven
“red lines” for the negotiators,
strictures that appeared to undercut several of the central
agreements they had already
reached with the West.
Afterward, most in the audience were confused, friend and
foe. Did Iran’s leader just derail
OFFICE OF THE IRANIAN SUPREME LEADER
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during his speech on Tuesday.
the talks by making impossible
demands days before the June 30
deadline to reach a deal? Or,
more likely, was he trying to
strengthen the hand of his representatives in the negotiations?
Whatever the interpretation, it
was a classic performance by Mr.
Khamenei, part of a strategy of
ambiguity that analysts say he
has followed for more than a decade on the tortuous path to a nuclear deal that, if achieved on his
terms, would crown his legacy.
“Our leader deliberately takes
ambiguous stances, because our
enemies, including the United
Continued on Page 8
CHARLESTON, S.C. — In a
rambling home at the edge of a
salt marsh, a proud graduate of
the Citadel, the storied Southern
military college whose cadets
fired the opening salvo of the Civil War, was deep in prayer with a
Bible study group.
That graduate was Lidia
Bonete, 26, an EcuadoreanAmerican who moved to South
Carolina from Chicago in 2007.
The subject of her prayer on this
particular Wednesday was the
racially motivated massacre, a
week earlier, of nine AfricanAmericans in a church basement
a few miles away.
In a region where church and
faith are woven into every strand
of society, prayer was one common, almost instinctive, response. But just as a Hispanic
woman from Chicago might not
be the first image to spring to
mind of the Citadel, long a male
bastion of Southern traditionalism, the South last week felt barely recognizable, as many of its
politicians called for longstanding Confederate symbols to come
down.
It was as if one horrendous act
JOSH HANER/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Confederate battle flags marked a few graves at Live Oak Cemetery in Selma, Ala., in February.
— and the response in Charleston
and across the South — had
thrown all the contradictions and
changes defining and redefining
the South into stark relief. They
revealed a place that is at once
reinventing itself on the fly while,
remarkably, keeping up with
many of its traditional values.
To many, it became abruptly
clear how out of place the iconography of the Old South had be-
come in this, the nation’s fastestgrowing region. It is a place of
Japanese and German auto
plants and polyglot international
Continued on Page 21
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SUNDAY REVIEW
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Police Reassess Use of Force
Mumbai’s Problem With Beef
Squaring the Triangle
Frank Bruni
European finance ministers on Saturday rejected Greece’s request to extend
its existing bailout program past a deadPAGE 4
line of Tuesday.
After a series of shootings, departments
across the nation are rethinking decades of tactics and changing training to
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build the public’s trust.
A law banning beef in the Indian state
that includes Mumbai has left more
than a million people scrambling to keep
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their livelihoods.
A long quest to make sense of the triangle offense, made famous by the Knicks’
president, Phil Jackson, unlocked a new
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understanding of basketball.
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