Gov. John Bel Edwards

The governor wants to protect state workers from discrimination. The Attorney General doesn’t. The state supreme court won’t even listen to them argue about it.

Partial credit goes to the welcoming atmosphere to the city’s French settlers — “puritanical morality” never really took over here.

The LGBT-rights order, issued by Edwards in April, has caused consternation with some Republican lawmakers who accused the governor of executive overreach.

The attorney general wants to block the governor from enforcing his executive order prohibiting LGBTQ discrimination in government contracts.

The Governor says his LGBT-rights protection order is a statement that Louisiana doesn’t discriminate. The Attorney General calls it executive overreach.

The ever-escalating argument between the two statewide elected officials over LGBT rights has intensified partisan divides at the Louisiana Capitol.

House lawmakers allied with Attorney General Jeff Landry refused to approve contracts that contained LGBT-rights language.

Gov. Edwards has said he won’t rescind the order, and he sued the attorney general over his refusal to approve the legal contracts containing the LGBT-rights language.

The NBA decided last month that it wouldn’t hold its event in North Carolina because of a state law that limits protections for LGBTQ people.