A federal district court has upheld a faith-based homeless shelter’s right to provide its overnight sleeping areas to biological women only and to express its religious views publicly as the basis for admissions decisions against admitting biological males claiming to be female. In a somewhat convoluted decision, the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska dismissed the Downtown Hope Shelter’s request for an injunction against enforcement of a recently revised Anchorage city code anti-discrimination provision that could define the facility as a “public accommodation” and thus force it to accept men and women in a shared sleeping area. The code had been revised after Anchorage officials withdrew the original version following the shelter’s filing suit in 2018 in the same federal court. The city agreed to pay $100,000 in damages to the shelter when it appeared the court would rule in the facility’s favor. Hope officials told the court …