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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.
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Holder: Boy Scouts’ ban on gay adults ‘perpetuates worst kind of stereotypes’
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday took aim at the Boy Scouts of America, saying it’s refusal to allow gay and lesbian adults to serve as scout leaders “perpetuates the worst kind of stereotypes.” In remarks at an event hosted by Lambda Legal, Holder called the ban “a relic of an age of prejudice and insufficient understanding.”
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Former cop sues London police claiming years of anti-gay harassment
LONDON — A former police officer is suing London’s Metropolitan Police for discrimination, claiming he was forced to quit after being told his bosses monitor the gay hook-up app Grindr, and that fellow officers taunted him by saying he should become “a hairdresser or cabin crew.”
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‘Very personal’ battle in Houston could get even more personal for Mayor Parker
In a battle she characterized as “very personal” and “about me,” Annise Parker, the openly gay mayor of Houston, won a victory last week when the city council passed a law to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. Now, she may have to take on two bigger fights: one to protect the law from a referendum, and another to protect her job from a recall effort.
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Queer Nation blasts HRC for ‘hypocrisy’ on LGBT workplace protections
NEW YORK — The gay rights activist group Queer Nation this week blasted the the Human Rights Campaign, the national’s largest LGBT lobbying group, for condemning Vatican hiring policies while it lobbies for passage of a workplace discrimination bill that includes religious protections.
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‘We don’t serve fags’ at Big Earl’s in Pittsburg, Texas
PITTSBURG, Texas — A same-sex couple says they were told not to come back to a restaurant in East Texas because Big Earls “doesn’t serve fags.”
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Mich. governor, business coalition urge adding statewide LGBT protections
MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. — Gov. Rick Snyder on Thursday urged legislators to consider updating Michigan’s civil rights law to prohibit discrimination because of sexual orientation or gender identity, applauding companies and the state’s two largest regional chambers of commerce for joining a business-backed push to amend the law.
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Va. transgender woman granted routine name change after 5 months of ‘scrutiny’
LYNCHBURG, Va. — A Virginia transgender woman whose routine name change request was stalled by a Lynchburg, Va., judge who flagged it for “extra scrutiny,” has been granted her request and will not be subjected to a second hearing to justify the change.
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Gay Eagle Scout, ousted Scout leader urge Amazon to end Boy Scouts support
SEATTLE, Wash. — A Maryland teen, who earlier this year became the openly gay scout awarded the highest rank of Eagle Scout, was in Seattle on Wednesday to deliver more than 125,000 signatures from his Change.org petition urging Amazon.com to suspend donations to the Boy Scouts of America until it lifts its ban on gay and lesbian leaders.
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Va. judge flags transgender woman’s name change request for ‘extra scrutiny’
LYNCHBURG, Va. — A Virginia transgender woman who was denied a name change by a Lynchburg, Va., circuit court judge earlier this year is due back in court on Friday for a second hearing on her request..