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Mississippi county clerk resigns over religious objection to same-sex marriages
Grenada County’s circuit clerk is resigning, saying that issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples violates her religious beliefs.
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Mississippi AG advises counties to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples
That news came Monday after state Attorney General Jim Hood sent a letter to county circuit clerks indicating they could go ahead and issue licenses.
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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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Transgender man sues loan company after executive demands he ‘dress and act like a woman’
Tristan Broussard alleges he was forced to leave his job at First Tower Loan in Lake Charles, Louisiana, offices after a company executive found out he was listed on his driver’s license as female.
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Mississippi man says attack on gay man was not a hate crime, victim threatened to out him
A Mississippi man accused of brutally beating a gay man says the attack was not a hate crime, and that the victim had threatened to expose his sexual orientation.
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Mississippi man says parking lot assault was an anti-gay hate crime
Police in Corinth, Miss., say James David Scott, 23, of Tishomingo County, confronted the victim, Devin Norman, 26, of Corinth, in a Walmart parking lot on Friday concerning an alleged post made on social media.
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Mississippi justices say gay marriage ban should be declared unconstitutional
Two Mississippi Supreme Court justices said Thursday that the court should find the state’s ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional and not wait for a ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Lawsuit settled over alleged bullying of gay students in Mississippi school district
The Southern Poverty Law Center has announced a settlement of its federal lawsuit alleging that gay students were routinely bullied in a south Mississippi school district.
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Starkville, Miss., aldermen: No insurance coverage for same-sex partners
Starkville aldermen have overridden the mayor’s veto of their earlier decision to bar city employees from buying buy health insurance coverage for unmarried domestic partners, including those of the same sex.
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Mississippi Supreme Court hears arguments over same-sex divorce
The Mississippi attorney general’s office told the court that the state can’t grant a divorce to same-sex couple because their marriage is void in Mississippi.