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Top Florida employers join coalition to fight against LGBT discrimination
Many of Florida’s largest employers on Monday launched the Florida Business Coalition for a Competitive Workforce, aimed at passing a bipartisan bill that would ban anti-gay and gender-based discrimination.
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Bills to ban workplace discrimination introduced in Va. general assembly
RICHMOND, Va. — Two bills to ban discrimination in the public workforce across Virginia have been put before the state’s General Assembly for the 2014 season.
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Gay couple kicked out of South Texas bar for dancing together
VICTORIA, Texas — A gay couple says they were kicked out of a South Texas country-western bar because of their sexual orientation.
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Brazil, where 44% of world’s anti-LGBT violence occurs, kills discrimination bill
BRASILIA — Brazil’s lawmakers on Wednesday killed a draft bill that would have prohibited discrimination or inciting violence on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
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Pa. governor Tom Corbett supports bill to outlaw anti-LGBT discrimination
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Gov. Tom Corbett said Wednesday that he would be willing to sign legislation to outlaw discrimination based on someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity, but he was unprepared to say what he will do, if anything, to try to dislodge such bills that have thus far languished in the Republican-controlled Legislature.
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In bill to prohibit workplace bias, broad exemption holds danger
Unless the language of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act’s religious exemption strikes a better balance to reflect the true meaning of religious liberty, core American principles and millions of American working men and women have a great deal at risk. It will take grassroots pressure and pushing by equality-minded advocates and policy-makers to make that balance happen. Who’s pushing the other way? Some religious potentates who oppose women’s right to control their fertility and their pregnancies also oppose anti-bias laws. They claim religious principle allows them to discriminate freely. But no federal law, least of all one intended to stop bias on the job, should allow them to have it both ways…
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Brazil lawmaker to defy government order, will call for vote on LGBT discrimination bill
BRASILIA, Brazil — A Brazilian lawmaker plans to defy her government orders and call for a vote on a bill that would prohibit discrimination or inciting violence on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
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Brazil shelves anti-LGBT discrimination bill amid record number of murders
BRASILIA, Brazil — Brazilian lawmakers on Friday shelved a draft law that would have prohibited discrimination or inciting violence on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
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Colo. baker says Jesus does not want him to bake cakes for gay couples
In a segment titled “The Death of Free Enterprise,” Fox News’ Elisabeth Hasselbeck speaks with Jack Phillips, the Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple’s wedding ceremony.
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Gay Catholic school teacher fired hours after applying for marriage license
BENSALEM, Pa. — A Catholic high school teacher in Pennsylvania said he was fired on Friday, just hours after applying for a marriage license to wed his same-sex partner.