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Religious freedom bill could spur adoption discrimination
Legislation introduced in Congress this week aimed at protecting the religious beliefs of child welfare service providers is drawing criticism from LGBT-rights advocates who say the...
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Social conservatives blast Obama’s LGBT nondiscrimination executive order
Social conservatives blast Obama's LGBT nondiscrimination executive order.
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Obama takes executive action to outlaw LGBT workplace discrimination
President Obama takes executive action to outlaw LGBT workplace discrimination.
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Obama set to sign LGBT nondiscrimination executive order
President Barack Obama will sign an executive order Monday prohibiting federal contractors from LGBT workplace discrimination as well as prohibiting discrimination against transgender federal employees.
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Obama urged to exclude religious exemption from LGBT nondiscrimination order
The White House is facing a barrage of requests not to include a religious exemption in an executive order that would prohibit federal contractors from...
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Labor Department will protect transgender workers from discrimination
The Obama administration will issue guidance “to make clear that discrimination on the basis of transgender status is discrimination based on sex,” Labor Secretary Thomas...
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Study finds signs of LGBT discrimination among federal contractors
LGBT workers seeking employment with federal contractors are more than 20 percent less likely to be called back for interviews than less qualified straight applicants,...
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Obama to sign LGBT nondiscrimination executive order
President Barack Obama will take executive action to prohibit federal contractors from LGBT workplace discrimination. According to a White House official, Obama has directed his...
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Education Department moves to protect transgender students from discrimination
Transgender students are protected from discrimination under the same federal law that prohibits sex discrimination, the Department of Education announced Tuesday. According to guidance issued...
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Obama continues executive actions, but not on LGBT workplace discrimination
President Barack Obama continued to act on his promise to make 2014 a year of action, signing two executive actions Tuesday seeking to narrow the...
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Georgia’s same-sex marriage ban will “institutionalize discrimination against LGBTI people”
“The amendment serves no purpose but to institutionalise discrimination against LGBTI people. As equality is the defining element of a civilised and inclusive society, I...
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Supreme Court declines to hear arguments in LGBT discrimination case
The U.S. Supreme Court will not address whether businesses have a right to discriminate after declining Monday to hear arguments in an anti-LGBT discrimination case...
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Biden labels LGBT discrimination ‘barbaric,’ but mum on executive order
Vice President Joe Biden urged Congress to outlaw LGBT workplace discrimination in a speech Saturday while making no mention of actions the Obama administration could...
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Maryland Senate committee approves gender identity nondiscrimination bill
The Maryland Senate’s Judicial Proceedings Committee passed along a party-line vote Thursday a nondiscrimination bill that would extend protections in employment, housing, credit and public...
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White House hedges on re-evaluation of LGBT nondiscrimination order
Following comments from a senior adviser to President Barack Obama that executive action prohibiting federal contractors from LGBT workplace discrimination is “under consideration,” the president’s...
