Religious Freedom

The professor says it would violate his “religious freedom” if he had to use the right pronouns for a trans student. A panel of Republican judges agreed.

“I find it offensive when people play the LBGTQ-whatever card,” the bill’s sponsor said when people raised objections.

The prime stimulus keeping oppression toward LGBTQ people locked firmly in place is the destructive doctrine radiating from fundamentalist religious communities.

A lot of people may assume their state is friendly, but in reality, 25 states — half of the 50 United States — are rated in the lowest category.

“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.”

Dwayne Bensing, an out lawyer & former staffer at the Department of Education under DeVos, reflects on her anti-LGBTQ crusade and looks forward to her eventual exit.

How does a country, founded on the notion of separation of church and state, keep finding itself under the tyranny of a rich, power hungry, religious society?

“That’s just crazy.”

The era where the courts expanded our rights is ending. Now, we’re about to move to an era of courts expanding restrictions of those rights.

“A lot of us are verbally attacked,” he told LGBTQ Nation. “So being a role model to LGBTQ youth would mean so much to me, to say, hey it can be done.”