Little Rock AR

An Arkansas city says its ordinance banning discrimination against LGBTQ people doesn’t violate a state law intended to prevent such local protections.

Asa Hutchinson criticized the directive as “social engineering.”

The three couples who filed suit can go to the Arkansas Department of Health to change the documents immediately.

Little Rock officials have voted to require companies contracting with the city to not discriminate based on sexual orientation or gender identity, challenging a new Arkansas law criticized as anti-gay.

Little Rock’s mayor is urging Arkansas’ governor to veto a “religious freedom” bill that critics have said sanctions discrimination against gays and lesbians and that the mayor argues will hurt the state’s economic development efforts.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Opponents of same-sex marriage rallied at the Arkansas state Capitol on Wednesday, demanding that the state Supreme Court not overturn a 2004 ballot measure that defines marriage in Arkansas as being between one man and one woman.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Dozens of same-sex couples, some of whom waited in line overnight, received licenses to marry from county clerks Monday, while lawyers for the state of Arkansas asked its highest court to suspend an order gutting a constitutional amendment that bans same-sex marriage.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A teacher who lost her job at a Catholic girls’ high school in Little Rock after she married her female partner said Tuesday she wants an apology from the school but isn’t asking for her job back.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — An Arkansas teacher has been fired from a Catholic school after she married her same-sex partner in a ceremony in New Mexico.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A group of 11 same-sex couples from Arkansas on Tuesday asked a judge to overturn the state’s ban on gay marriage, the latest effort aimed at repealing the amendment after recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings supporting gay couples.