Eric Patterson, Ph.D. serves as Executive Vice President of the Religious Freedom Institute. Patterson is scholar-at-large and past Dean of the Robertson School of Government at Regent University and a Research Fellow at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs. Patterson’s interest in the intersection of religion, ethics, and foreign policy is informed by two stints at the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, work in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Congo, Angola, and elsewhere. His government service includes over twenty years as an officer and commander in the Air National Guard and serving as a White House Fellow working for the Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. Patterson is the author or editor of over a dozen books, including Politics in a Religious World: Toward a Religiously Informed U.S. Foreign Policy; Just American Wars: Ethical Dilemmas in U.S. Military History; Ending Wars Well; Ethics Beyond War’s End; and Military Chaplains in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Beyond. He has published on religious freedom, democracy, and democratization in International Studies Perspectives, Review of Faith and International Affairs, International Politics, and the International Journal of Religious Freedom.
It is wrong to force religious individuals who are highly skilled medical and mental health professionals to violate their core religious convictions by compelling them to support and participate in terminating life, or in elective therapies that seek fundamentally to alter the human person, whether to achieve transgender ends or transhumanist ones.
Date posted: 2021-06-13