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Washington governor signs ban on sexual-orientation conversion therapy

A measure banning licensed therapists from trying to change a minor’s sexual orientation or gender identity was signed into law Wednesday by Washington Gov. Jay Inslee. Inslee signed the bill joined by lawmakers and other LGBT supporters, including Democratic Sen. Marko Liias, the bill’s sponsor, and Chad Griffin, the president of the D.C.-based Human Rights

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Mike Pence & a hate group leader are behind Trump’s new trans military ban

Multiple sources are saying that Mike Pence – along with some anti-LGBTQ activists – wrote the report behind Donald Trump‘s new transgender military ban. The White House released a plan on Friday night to purge transgender people from the military, which revoked the previous transgender military ban that was announced last year. Accompanying the new plan was a memo signed by Defense Secretary

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Christian Group: Don’t Say We Support Gay Conversion Therapy (Even Though We Do)

During John Oliver‘s fantastic segment on Last Week Tonight about Mike Pence, he noted Pence’s belief that sexual orientation is a choice. Pence is rumored to be a believer in “gay conversion therapy,” an ineffective and cruel way to supposedly turn gay people straight. Even though that’s not how being gay works, the method is still championed by many evangelical Christians.

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Don't give Iowa tax dollars to schools that discriminate, LGBTQ advocates say

Iowa tax dollars could go to schools that deny admission to gay and lesbian students if lawmakers move forward with legislation allowing education savings accounts for K-12 students, according to LGBTQ advocates. Iowa lawmakers are considering Senate Study Bill 3206, which would allow students enrolling in private schools to be eligible for about $4,000 a year in state money. Proponents of the school

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Judge Vance Day — who wouldn’t marry same-sex couples — suspended for 3 years

The Oregon Supreme Court on Thursday took the unusual step of suspending a sitting state court judge — Vance Day of Salem — for three years. The high court found that Day, first appointed in 2011 to the bench in Marion County Circuit Court, committed “willful misconduct” and made “willful misstatements” to investigators to cover

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Businesses are saying no to ‘religious freedom’ laws & lawmakers are listening

The Kentucky House of Representatives is swerving away from a freedom-to-hate bill — thanks in part to businesses pushing back. House Bill 372 would have given churches and religious organizations the right to ignore the municipal LGBTQ protections now in nine Kentucky cities. The original bill had 46 sponsors among 100 state representatives. But State Rep. Jason

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Oklahoma LGBT Group Launches Campaign Against Anti-Gay ‘Religious Freedom’ Bill

Oklahoma Republican lawmakers are attacking LGBT parents and same-sex headed families who wish to adopt, by filing a discriminatory bill that would allow agencies that have a religious or moral opposition to same-sex marriage the right to refuse to place a child in their homes. The Oklahoma State Department of Education in January of 2017

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GOP reintroduces bill pitting 'religious freedom' against gay marriage

The First Amendment Defense Act, commonly known as FADA, has been reintroduced in Congress by Senator Mike Lee of Utah and 21 other Republicans — despite being called “harmful,” “discriminatory” and the “vilest anti-LGBT religious freedom bill of our time” by gay rights advocates. The bill, Lee said, is “designed to prevent the federal government from

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