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New & Noteworthy:
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Florida House panel OKs bill restricting public restrooms to birth gender
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Mets' infielder disagrees with MLB ambassador Billy Bean's gay 'lifestyle'
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Federal judge won't lift stay in Arkansas same-sex marriage case
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Utah LGBT non‑discrimination bill exempts Boy Scouts, religious groups
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A defiant Alabama regains ground against marriage equality
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Fire Department of New York gets first female, openly gay chaplain
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S.D. Senate panel dismisses bill aimed at voiding transgender student athlete policy
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Nebraska AG seeks stay of ruling striking down same-sex marriage ban
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'The Fosters' makes television history with youngest same-sex kiss
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Alabama Supreme Court orders judges to stop issuing same-sex marriage licenses
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Slovenia lawmakers approve same-sex marriage, gay couple adoption
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Ex-Rhode Island House speaker pleads guilty to federal charges
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East Grand Rapids, Mich., council supports adding LGBT protections
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Joe Biden to headline Human Rights Campaign annual convention
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Bill expected soon on LGBT discrimination, religious rights in Utah
Liberty Counsel
Liberty Counsel is a non-profit public interest law firm and ministry that promotes “Christian religious liberty, the sanctity of human life, and the traditional family,” and is headed by attorney Mathew D. Staver. [ Wikipedia ]
Liberty Counsel devotes much of its time to fighting against same-sex marriage, civil unions, and adoption by LGBT parents. It opposes efforts to prohibit employment discrimination against LGBT workers, and opposes ‘the addition of “sexual orientation,” “gender identity” or similar provisions’ to hate crimes legislation. The Southern Poverty Law Center lists the Liberty Counsel as being one of twelve groups comprising an “anti-gay crusade.”
Archives | Mentions:
The year in homophobia: Ten of the worst anti-LGBT stories of 2014
The Radical Righ, sees recent advances in LGBT rights as a reason to find new strategies to fight what it believes is a tyrannical government bent on persecuting conservatives and inviting divine punishment. [...]
Challenge to N.J. ban on conversion therapy appealed to U.S. Supreme Court
WASHINGTON -- A federal appeals court decision upholding New Jersey's ban on conversion therapy for LGBT youth has been appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. The anti-gay legal group Liberty Counsel on Wednesday asked the court to review a September ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third [...]
Civil rights groups to RNC: GOP should stop associating with anti-gay groups
WASHINGTON -- The Southern Poverty Law Center and a coalition of civil rights groups on Wednesday called on the head of the Republican National Committee (RNC) to urge party members to disassociate themselves from groups behind this week’s Values Voter Summit because of their relentless demonization of the LGBT community. [...]
Anti-gay activists link ISIS beheadings to same-sex marriage
Last week on “Crosstalk,” Voice of Christian Youth America’s Vic Eliason and Liberty Counsel’s Mat Staver connected same-sex marriage in the U.S. to beheadings committed by the terrorist group ISIS. Discussing recent marriage equality legal victories, Staver made his standard prediction that the legalization of same-sex marriage will pave the [...]
Anti-gay groups call for Target boycott over retailer’s support for gay marriage
A number of anti-gay groups are calling for nationwide boycotts of Target after the chain signed on to a legal brief supporting marriage equality. The National Organization for Marriage, the Liberty Counsel and American Decency Association say the company's public support for same-sex marriage is a "slap in the face [...]
Dear Matt Barber: Calling yourself a Christian does not make it so
Calling yourself a Christian does not give you special privileges in this country. Calling yourself a Christian does not make you a better American than me. And calling yourself a Christian does not absolve you from rights and responsibilities that all Americans have. This is not, nor has it ever [...]
U.S. Supreme Court rejects challenge to Calif. law banning ‘gay cure’ therapy
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way Monday for enforcement of a first-of-its-kind California law that bars psychological counseling aimed at turning gay minors straight. The justices turned aside a legal challenge brought by supporters of so-called conversion or reparative therapy. Without comment, they let stand ... [...]
Mat Staver struggles to defend allowing businesses to discriminate against gays
Testifying before a House committee today about supposed threats to religious freedom in the U.S., Liberty Counsel’s Mat Staver struggled to defend his support for allowing businesses to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation. [...]
Seven more groups now designated by SPLC as anti-gay hate groups
The Southern Poverty Law Center has added seven more anti-gay organizations to its list of anti-gay hate groups. No doubt the standard whine of these groups will be the same one offered up by the Family Research Council when SPLC named it as a hate group a while back, i.e. [...]
Religious right leaders rail against Virginia marriage equality ruling
A federal judge’s decision to strike down Virginia’s ban on same-sex marriagehas unsurprisingly stoked the ire of conservatives. [...]
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Federal judge won't lift stay in Arkansas same-sex marriage case 
A defiant Alabama regains ground against marriage equality
Nebraska AG seeks stay of ruling striking down same-sex marriage ban
Alabama Supreme Court orders judges to stop issuing same-sex marriage licenses
Slovenia lawmakers approve same-sex marriage, gay couple adoption 
Arkansas AG opposes effort to lift stay in same-sex marriage case 
Holder: 'Nothing justifies excluding same-sex couples from the institution of marriage'
Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts denounces same-sex marriage ruling 
Supreme Court rejects appeal by Prop 8 donors to keep their identities secret
Federal judge strikes down Nebraska same-sex marriage ban
