Hobby Lobby
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Is Neal Gorsuch the reason Supreme Court keeps delaying LGBTQ rights case?
Friday, May 5, 2017The battle over a wedding cake is seen as a key test of religious freedom vs. the rights of LGBTQ Americans - and the Supreme Court just punted the case again. -
Gay attorney says Trump’s SCOTUS pick called his marriage ‘a wonderful thing’
Saturday, February 4, 2017The gay former law clerk for Trump's Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch said he never got the impression the judge was homophobic. -
Where do Trump’s possible Supreme Court picks stand on LGBTQ issues?
Tuesday, January 31, 2017Could one of Trump's potential Supreme Court nominees be a surprise ally to LGBTQ people? -
Judge: employer’s religious freedom outweighs transgender civil rights
Thursday, August 18, 2016This ruling may set a potentially devastating precedent for trans people that can be traced to the Hobby Lobby decision. -
Not all the same: Christian Right’s Hobby Lobbyization of RFRAs hits the fan
Sunday, April 26, 2015It is revealing how important it was to conservatives that the Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act not be seen as discriminatory – using false claims about the federal and other state level RFRAs as a cover. -
Hobby Lobby decision is a threat to LGBTQ civil rights gains
Tuesday, July 1, 2014LGBTQ rights, particularly marriage equality, have made incredible advances over the past year. But, like other great human rights struggles, organized opponents are working hard to contain and undermine movement gains. Many in the LGBTQ community… -
Supreme Court: Corporations can hold religious objections to contraceptive coverage
Monday, June 30, 2014WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court ruled Monday that some corporations can hold religious objections that allow them to opt out of the new health law requirement that they cover contraceptives for women. The justices’ 5-4 decision… -
Jindal slams HGTV, ‘war on religious liberties’ in commencement speech
Sunday, May 11, 2014LYNCHBURG, Va. -- Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal on Saturday slammed HGTV for canceling a proposed HGTV real estate reality show after news broke that one of the brothers has actively campaigned against marriage equality and LGBT… -
Supreme Court hearing on religious exemptions seems ‘deeply worrisome’
Wednesday, March 26, 2014WASHINGTON -- Nobody spoke about recent efforts to circumvent laws protecting LGBT from discrimination by claiming religious motivations; nobody pointed out that people with religious objections to contraception often have religious objections to alternative insemination for… -
U.S. Supreme Court to hear cases relating to employers’ religious beliefs
Tuesday, March 18, 2014WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court will hear two cases next week that test the degree to which employers may use their personal religious beliefs to deny certain health coverage for employees. Neither case involves any…
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An open letter to Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy from the LGBTQ community
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Texas governor signs license to discriminate law that will hurt orphans
Meet the queer man changing what people think of Planned Parenthood
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