The Aderholt Amendment would have allowed adoption centers receiving federal funding to discriminate on the basis of religion. This would mean that they could turn away an LGBT couple, an interfaith couple, or an atheist couple who are otherwise qualified and willing to provide a loving home — all while receiving taxpayer dollars. While the […]
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A team of conservative lawyers filed a petition in the Supreme Court on Friday, effectively asking the Court to allow religious conservatives to discriminate against same-sex couples. This latest case, Klein v. Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries, presents many of the same issues that arose last term in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions made a spectacle of announcing his Religious Liberty Task Force last Monday, when he said a “dangerous movement” threatening people of faith must be “confronted intellectually and politically and defeated.” Hosting a Religious Liberty Summit inside the Department of Justice headquarters, Sessions had surrounded himself largely with players from the religious
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Move over, Kim Davis. There’s a new legal clerk refusing to do her job because of religion. A same-sex couple in the state of New York wanted to get married — which is their right and has been since 2011 — but their town’s clerk, Laurel Erickson, refused to grant them a marriage certificate. The couple, Dylan Toften and Thomas
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After a same-sex couple was denied a marriage license in New York, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has not only opened an investigation into the case, he has offered to officiate the couple’s wedding in Albany. Dylan Toften and Thomas Hurd sought the license in Root, N.Y., about 50 miles from Albany. But the town’s clerk,
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A listed anti-LGBT hate group has been linked to the Trump administration’s new religious freedom task force, which activists fear will be used to undermine equal rights protections. Trump’s Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the formation of a “religious freedom task force” at a Religious Liberty Summit hosted by the Justice Department on Monday. In his speech Sessions
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Civil rights groups and LGBTQ advocates on Tuesday tore into the Department of Justice’s newly formed “religious liberty task force,” slamming the move as a discriminatory affront to civil liberties masquerading as protections for people of faith. “This task force’s agenda isn’t consistent with religious freedom. Religious freedom protects our right to our beliefs, not
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The Trump administration has consistently championed a narrow view of religious liberty in America. But the Justice Department’s latest religious liberty initiative may be the most far-reaching — and potentially troubling — one yet. On Monday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the creation of a “Religious Liberty Task Force” that will enforce a 2017 DOJ memo ordering
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Sadly it is no exaggeration, no hyperbole, to say that Attorney General Jeff Sessions declared a holy war on LGBT people, LGBT equality, and LGBT rights on Monday. He declared war on anything that could be perceived to trespass on the “religious freedom” or “religious liberty” of Christians—which is loosely defined enough to be construed as trespassing on pretty
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The Secular Coalition for America joined 210 organizations in a letter to Members of Congress opposing the Aderholt Amendment, which would allow
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