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Commentary
The Supreme Court’s love for religious freedom won’t just affect LGBTQ people
Even as Biden picks his first justice, the conservative bench may still give the religious right a free pass to discriminate as long as they cite their faith. But where will the line end?
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News (USA)
Supreme Court judge says gay rights case proves vaccine mandate is illegal
Justice Niel Gorsuch wrote in his opinion that people have a similar right to a religious exemption from COVID-19 vaccine mandates as anti-gay bakers do to refuse gay couples.
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Bias Watch
Is Jen Psaki behind an “intimidation” campaign against a wacky Christian White House reporter?
Matthew Anthony Harper runs a quarterly newsletter that publishes anti-LGBTQ screeds and the n-word. Now he’s complaining the Secret Service won’t let him “float” in front of Jen Psaki’s office.
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News (USA)
Web designer who sued for right to turn away LGBTQ clients gets laughed out of court
“This really isn’t about cake or websites or flowers.”
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News (USA)
Supreme Court rejects appeal from Christian florist who discriminated against gay couple
Robert Ingersoll and Curt Freed just wanted flowers for their wedding in 2013, but the florist has put up a legal fight to discriminate for almost a decade.
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News (USA)
Christian baker loses second discrimination case for refusing trans woman’s birthday cake order
Jack Phillips refused to sell a gay couple a wedding cake but promised he’d make a birthday cake for anyone. Except trans women, apparently.
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News (USA)
National hate group could be behind the bills in 20+ states attacking transgender youth
They’re writing the laws and handing them to Republicans to file as if they wrote it themselves.
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News (USA)
Justice Alito begins full-court press on LGBTQ rights by claiming that marriage equality ruling censors people
“You can’t say that marriage is a union between one man and one woman. Until recently, that’s what the vast majority of Americans thought. Now, it’s considered bigotry.”
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Bias Watch
A Christian troll wants to sue a lesbian baker after she made an antigay cake he ordered
The troll claims he faced “anti-Catholic discrimination” when she baked his cake and then had to throw it out when he didn’t pick it up.
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Politics
The Supreme Court is considering the case that could gut LGBTQ protections for good
The case involves three Muslim men suing FBI agents, but the religious right could use the verdict to enshrine exemptions in the law.