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Marching Backwards: Voters In Missouri Decide To Strip Civil Rights From LGBT Residents
Springfield voters repealed a non-discrimination ordinance on Tuesday, but the vote was very close in the Bible Belt community.
Tagged LGBT rights in the United States
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Republican-Dominated North Dakota House Resists 21st Century, Rejects LGBT Equality Again
The ND legislature has made a habit of rejecting LGBT equality, soundly rejecting legal protections every time they come to a vote.
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Montana House Refuses To Follow Other Red States Down The “Religious Freedom” Rabbit Hole
The Montana House failed to pass a “religious freedom” to discriminate bill, deadlocking on a 50-50 vote on Friday.
Nancy Pelosi Celebrates The Latest Victory For Marriage Equality
Today marks an important day for marriage equality in the United States as the Supreme Court refused to review several circuit court rulings that strike down state bans on same sex marriage.
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Christian Conservatives Are Trying To Use Hobby Lobby To Discriminate Against Gays
Maybe the President regrets intertwining government and religion when he continued George W. Bush’s Faith-Based initiatives. Now they are using their connection to the White House to exact recompense in the form of permission to discriminate against the gay community according to their “deeply-held religious beliefs” the Supreme Court cited mercilessly in its ruling for Hobby Lobby.
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Gay Marriage Scares Oklahoma Rep So Much He Proposes Banning All Marriages
Republican lawmaker Mike Turner is floating the idea of making marriage illegal in the state of Oklahoma.
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The Supreme Court Disappoints With Utah Decision
Monday’s order by the Supreme Court to “suspend” same sex marriage in Utah is, to put it mildly, disappointing.
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Religious Conservatives Thrown Into A Frenzied Panic After Court Won’t Impose Biblical Law
Religious conservatives have been thrown into a frenzied panic because a federal judge struck down what they thought was their dog-given right to impose biblical law on people.
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Dirty Laundry: John Kasich Thinks Calling Women Heroes Makes up for the War on Women
GOP Gov John Kasich of Ohio called us laundry-doing women ‘heroes’ even as the man he was introducing, Paul Ryan, has voted against equal pay for women for years running and is obstructing our civil liberties even now.