All posts tagged "first amendment"
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Buttigieg responds to Pence: My problem is when your “religious beliefs are used as an excuse to harm other people”
South Bend mayor says his quarrel is with how the vice president uses his beliefs to justify anti-gay discrimination
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Anti-gay group asks Supreme Court to overturn New Jersey’s ban on conversion therapy
A prominent anti-LGBTQ religious group is seeking to overturn New Jersey’s ban on conversion therapy and other similar bans throughout the country. Earlier this month,...
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Virginia bill to enshrine right to conversion therapy sent back to committee
The Virginia Senate approved, and then reconsidered, a bill that would have enshrined the right of people to subject themselves to conversion therapy, before eventually...
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Federal judge says Tampa’s conversion therapy ban violates free speech rights
Rationale for partial injunction could be used to challenge or curtail other broad-based bans on conversion therapy
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Arizona’s attorney general says calligraphers should be allowed to turn away gay customers
Owners of Brush and Nib Studio say Phoenix's nondiscrimination ordinance violates their First Amendment rights
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Anti-gay baker’s lawsuit against Colorado Civil Rights Commission to continue
Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips claims the state of Colorado is unfairly targeting him due to his religious beliefs
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Houston Public Library sued by anti-gay activists over “Drag Queen Storytime”
Chief plaintiff has sued other libraries over similar events, claiming it promotes the "religion" of secular humanism
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Federal appeals court rules that Nashville should have allowed anti-gay preachers to protest Pride festival
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the city of Nashville violated the First Amendment rights of two anti-gay protesters outside the...
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Anti-LGBTQ groups sue Louisiana officials for allowing “Drag Queen Story Time” at local library
Groups allege that the event violates the Establishment Clause and endorses the religion of "secular humanism"
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Arizona Court of Appeals rules against calligrapher asking to turn away gay couples
The Arizona Court of Appeals ruled that a calligrapher that wanted to preemptively turn away same-sex couples did not have a First Amendment right that...
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Opponents of California conversion therapy bill claim it would ban the Bible
Opponents of a California bill that would classify conversion therapy as a form of consumer fraud are launching an all-out effort to stop it from...
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Hawaii appeals court rules in favor of lesbian couple turned away from bed and breakfast
Lodging owner believes same-sex relationships are "detestable" and "defile our land"
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Norton introduces bill to protect LGBTQ rights from congressional meddling
Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District of Columbia’s non-voting delegate to Congress, has introduced a bill to protect D.C.’s LGBTQ rights and reproductive freedom laws...
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Alabama school district will allow lesbian couple to attend prom together
Lambda Legal threatened legal action after school disciplined the girls for public "promposal"
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Judge upholds firing of anti-gay fire chief in Atlanta
But court also finds rule requiring employees to receive permission for outside employment is unconstitutional
