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Freedom to Marry launches $1 million marriage equality campaign in U.S. South
NEW YORK – Freedom to Marry, the advocacy campaign to win marriage equality nationwide, on Monday launched a $1 million multi-state campaign to build majority support for marriage in the South.
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Tenn. bill allowing discrimination against gay couples dead this session
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A proposal to protect wedding-related businesses from lawsuits if they refuse to provide services to same-sex couples is dead for the session after being withdrawn from a Senate committee on Tuesday.
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Tenn. lawmaker introduces bill to allow religious discrimination against gays
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A Tennessee state lawmaker has introduced a bill that would allow individuals and businesses to refuse to provide goods and services to gays based on their religious beliefs.
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Brookdale to offer same-sex spousal benefits in response to lawsuit
HARTFORD, Conn. — A Tennessee-based company that is a target of a sex discrimination complaint in Connecticut says it’s changing its policy and will provide health coverage to the spouses of same-sex couples.
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Plaintiffs in challenge to Tenn. same-sex marriage ban encouraged by Okla. ruling
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Supporters of marriage equality in Tennessee say they are encouraged by recent federal court rulings in Utah and Oklahoma that struck down state limits on same-sex marriage.
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Tenn. businesses encouraged to support state’s LGBT community
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Equality Project is starting a new initiative to encourage business to show support for the state’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community.
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Store owner charged with filing false report after alleging anti-gay attack
PARIS, Tenn. — The owner of a health food store in Tennessee, who said last month that he had been robbed and beaten in an anti-gay attack, has been arrested and charged with filing a false police report after he allegedly withheld information about the incident.
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Attackers beat store owner, write ‘fag’ on his forehead in alleged hate crime
PARIS, Tenn — The owner of a health food store in Tennessee was beaten unconscious Wednesday evening by three men who used anti-gay slurs before robbing him and writing “fag” across his forehead.
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Couples in Tenn. same-sex marriage lawsuit seek injunction
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Four same-sex couples are asking a federal judge for a preliminary injunction that would force Tennessee to recognize their marriages.
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Methodist bishops plan complaint over retired bishop officiating gay wedding
LAKE JUNALUSKA, N.C. — The United Methodist Council of Bishops on Friday said it plans to file a complaint against a retired bishop who performed a wedding for two gay men in Alabama.