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Demonstrators throw rocks to the police, after the funeral of Freddie Gray, Monday, April 27, 2015, at New Shiloh Baptist Church in Baltimore. Gray died from spinal injuries about a week after he was arrested and transported in a Baltimore Police Department van. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
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Baltimore police officers detain a demonstrator after clashes with police, after the funeral of Freddie Gray, Monday, April 27, 2015, at New Shiloh Baptist Church in Baltimore. Gray died from spinal injuries after he was arrested and transported in a Baltimore Police Department van. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
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Condy Holmes of Mechanicsburg, Ind., holds a sign a rally at the Statehouse in Indianapolis, Monday, April 27, 2015, against the revised religious freedom legislation. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy) ** FILE **
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Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., pauses as he addresses mourners at a funeral for Freddie Gray, Monday, April 27, 2015, at New Shiloh Baptist Church in Baltimore. Gray died from spinal injuries about a week after he was arrested and transported in a Baltimore Police Department van. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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Friends and family of Freddie Gray gather around his casket before his funeral, Monday, April 27, 2015, at New Shiloh Baptist Church in Baltimore. Gray died from spinal injuries about a week after he was arrested and transported in a Baltimore Police Department van. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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Afghan security forces stand guard during a protest demanding justice for a woman who was beaten to death by a mob after being falsely accused of burning a Quran more than one month ago, in downtown Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, April 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Allauddin khan)
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Pope Francis holds the hands of one of the nineteen new priests he ordained during a ceremony in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Sunday, April 26, 2015. (Giorgio Onorati/Pool Photo via AP)
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Rev. Russell Moore, director of the Southern Baptist's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, speaks in Nashville, Tenn., on Oct. 28, 2014. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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New York State Sen. Ruben Diaz led the crowd in cheers for "marriage as God ordained" at the March for Marriage Saturday. After the noon rally, marchers went to the Supreme Court to pray for the justices, the people and the nation. (Image: Cheryl Wetzstein, The Washington Times)
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Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake speaks in front of local faith leaders at a news conference regarding the death of Freddie Gray, Friday, April 24, 2015, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) ** FILE **
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Muslim men gather early before a call to prayers in the mosque at the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center Friday, April 24, 2015, in Boston. (Associated Press)
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This Feb. 5, 2013, photo shows Sweet Cakes by Melissa in Gresham,Ore. An administrative law judge proposed Friday, April 24, 2015, that the owners of the suburban Portland bakery pay $135,000 to a lesbian couple who were refused service more than two years ago. The judge, Alan McCullough, ruled in January that Sweet Cakes by Melissa discriminated against Laurel and Rachel Bowman-Cryer by refusing to bake them a wedding cake. The bakers cited their religious beliefs in a case that has been cited in the national debate over religious freedom and discrimination against gays. (Everton Bailey Jr./The Oregonian via AP)
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Alice Dreger, a Northwestern University ethicist and author, sent out a long series of critical tweets last week as she attended her son's high school sex-education class on abstinence. (Twitter/@AliceDreger)
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ROTC cadets participate in a "Walk a Mile in Her Shoes" event held at Temple University on April 1, 2015. (Image: Temple University Army ROTC)
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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, center, mingles at a "Politics and Eggs" event, a breakfast fixture for 2016 presidential prospects at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., in this April 17, 2015, photo. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
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The Islamic State's latest mass-beheading video purports to show the executions of dozens of Ethiopian Christians against multiple backdrops — including one replete with blood-colored waves lapping up from the Mediterranean. (Associated Press)
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Illustration on failed civics education in the nation's schools by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2006, file photo, Robert H. Schuller poses outside the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, Calif. Schuller, the Southern California televangelist who brought his message of "possibility thinking" to millions, died at age 88 on April 2, 2015. A public memorial will be held outside the glimmering cathedral he built in Southern California on Monday, April 20, 2015. The memorial service is open to the public. The church's campus has been bought by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange.(AP Photo/Chris Carlson, File)
