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News (USA)Liberty University’s Black staff members are quitting over Jerry Falwell’s racist tweet
Jerry Falwell Jr. has “brought further disgrace to Jesus Christ and Liberty University,” students say.
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PoliticsVirginia Republicans are targeting one of their own because he officiated a gay wedding
Rep. Denver Riggleman is hardly a flaming liberal. But, his challenger works for Jerry Falwell Jr. at the notorious Liberty University.
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News (USA)Amazon is paying a gay bar to make 10,000 free meals for first responders
The meals are going to police, medical workers and “neighbors in immediate need” during the coronavirus epidemic.
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News (USA)Virginia is the first state in the South to make it illegal to discriminate against LGBTQ people
“No longer will LGBTQ Virginians have to fear being fired, evicted, or denied service in public places because of who they are.”
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News (USA)Politician claims school’s rainbow flag sticker is a sign of the “collapse of humanity”
Students and parents slammed him at a board meeting: “My daughter did not choose to be gay.”
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News (USA)Virginia bans conversion therapy for minors. It’s the first southern state to do it.
40% of U.S. states now ban the pseudoscientific torture, but anti-LGBTQ forces are trying to have them overturned in the courts.
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LGBTQ HistoryVirginia passed a statute governing trans birth certificates in 1979. It wasn’t controversial then.
Virginia protected trans people in the 70s without any political opposition. The Old Dominion state is coming full circle.
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News (USA)Virginia Democrats walk out as GOP-invited pastor denigrates gay people on House floor
A man who was with the pastor asked reporters if they knew that the Bible called for the death penalty as punishment for “sodomy.”
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Bias WatchChristian pundit says that Trump is “just too much of a man” for LGBTQ people
The left hates Donald Trump because he’s just too manly, while Barack Obama was “light in the loafers.”
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News (USA)Virginia to become the first Southern state with LGBTQ civil rights protections
The state is working on a lot of LGBTQ legislation following Democratic wins last fall.
