It Can Happen Here: Trump Call For Excluding Muslims From U.S. Has Disturbing Precedents
Cruz, Huckabee Pledge To Make Anti-LGBT Religious Freedom Bill A Priority
Kansas Legislator Is Adamant That Same-Sex Couples Should Not Be Foster Parents
Kansas state Senator Forrest Knox has a history of trying to pass homophobic foster care restrictions in his state. His reply when faced with the backlash? That he was only thinking of the children.
Arkansas Begins Listing Same-Sex Partners On Birth Certificates
Texas Attorney General Still Attempting to Undo A Single Same-Sex Marriage Months After SCOTUS Ruling
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Scathing Scalia: Judge, Law Scholar Criticize Supreme Court Justice’s Marriage Equality Rants
In an editorial for The New York Times, 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Richard Posner slammed a U.S. Supreme Court justice for his views on gay rights. Posner, who co-wrote the piece with Georgia State University law professor Eric Segall, argued that Antonin Scalia’s vehement opposition to gay rights is incompatible with the Constitution.
Opponents Of Same-Sex Parenting Twist Science To Agree With Ideology
The IUD The Newest Target In Religious Right's Anti-Contraception Crusade
God’s Boycott: Ala. Lawmaker Asks Constituents To Only Shop At Christian Businesses
An Alabama state representative thinks he has a solution for combating terrorism: People should shop only at businesses owned by “God-fearing Christians.”
Ted Cruz Calls Marriage Equality Decision "One Of The Greatest Threats To Our Democracy"
Ted Cruz made an appearance on a conservative activist conference call recently, during which he answered some questions about marriage equality and other LGBT issues posed by religious extremist Peter LaBarbera. You can just imagine how that went.
Evidence Suggests That Accused Planned Parenthood Gunman Is Indeed A "Christian Terrorist"
The Obama Administration Has Been Quietly Been Changing The Lives of Transgender Individuals For The Better
Alabama Taxpayers Now On The Hook For Legal Fees After Planned Parenthood Defunding Attempt
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Linda Greenhouse Wins Headline of the Year
From AU's Senior Litigation Counsel Greg Lipper's Thanksgiving Day guest post on Bill of Health.
“Sex After 50 at the Supreme Court” is the title of today’s Turkey Day column by the peerless Linda Greenhouse. She takes a saucy look at upcoming Supreme Court cases on contraception and abortion and the role of religion in motivating restrictions on reproductive rights and health.
Terror At Planned Parenthood: Facing The Consequences Of The Far Right’s Lies
ICYMI – Senator Hatch Used Floor Time to Promote Harmful Religious Refusals
Last week, Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) concluded his sixth speech in a series of floor speeches devoted to the topic of religious liberty. Senator Hatch’s speeches have covered everything from the history of religious freedom to threats to religious liberty abroad. Or at least, he has covered everything from his point of view of what religious liberty means.
Former Pastor Files Needless “Pastor Protection” Bill
On the first day lawmakers could file legislation in Virginia, Delegate Chris Head filed House Bill 19, a bill that would clarify that people authorized to perform marriage ceremonies may not be required to do so. Del. Head, a former pastor, explained that “[t]he purpose of this bill is simply to absolutely clarify that pastors of churches shouldn’t be compelled to perform a ceremony that violates the tenets of their religion; nothing more.”
More on the New York Wedding-Venue Discrimination Case
Yesterday I wrote about a New York case in which a commercial wedding venue claims that it has a constitutional right to discriminate against same-sex couples, in violation of New York state law, when renting out its facility. New York Law Journal now has a report on the oral argument.
Lawyers for the wedding venue argued that merely by renting the facility for a same-sex couple to use for its wedding—on the same terms that the venue rents to other tenants—the venue's owners are being forced to "endorse a viewpoint with which they disagree" in violation of the First Amendment.