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Our side destroyed Mississippi’s ‘license to discriminate’ law in court
“We should have the right to celebrate our anniversary in any establishment we choose, and we should hold hands without fear of being humiliated.”
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Opponents say anti-LGBTQ Mississippi law favors some religious beliefs
Gay rights groups are particularly alarmed by a provision that would allow school counselors to deny help to LGBTQ students.
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Mississippi politicians squabble over fate of anti-LGBT law
Mississippi’s Democratic attorney general said Wednesday that he won’t join the Republican governor in appealing a federal judge’s ruling.
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Wanted: lawyer to sue Obama, see Mississippi governor
Eleven states are suing the administration over the directive to schools about transgender students. Mississippi won’t be one of them.
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Lawyers seek to remove hold on same-sex marriage in Mississippi
Attorney General Jim Hood, a Democrat, says a federal appeals court in New Orleans must first lift a hold on a same-se marriage court case from Mississippi. He said he doesn’t know how long that could take.
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Mississippi files notice of appeal in same-sex marriage case, asks to extend stay
JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi’s attorney general has taken first steps to appeal a federal judge’s ruling that overturned the state’s ban on same-sex marriage. A formal notice of appeal was filed late Wednesday in federal court in Jackson and with the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans by Attorney General Jim Hood and Gov. Phil Bryant.
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Lesbian couple refused use of facility for same-sex commitment ceremony
JACKSON, Miss. — A lesbian couple in Mississippi has been refused use of a state-owned museum facility that is routinely hired out for weddings and other functions because they are gay.