by admin | Dec 3, 2015 | Equality, LGBTQIA+
LGBT Americans achieved a huge milestone this year when the Supreme Court recognized same-sex marriage nationwide, and many places are working to pass LGBT measures in local courts. But the work is far from over: other places, like Indiana, are still trying to...
by admin | Sep 30, 2015 | LGBTQIA+, News
Quite a lot, legally speaking, as both issues are often subject to the scorn of parties who wish to deny them rights. Before now, federal courts upheld legislation that companies who wished to deny employees birth control under the umbrella of “religious objection”...
by admin | Sep 17, 2015 | Equality, LGBTQIA+, News
Though people around the country are arguing that Kim Davis, the Kentucky law clerk recently jailed (and released) for refusing to issue same-sex marriages in Rowan County, is practicing civil disobedience, that term does not accurately describe what Davis has done....
by admin | Sep 4, 2015 | LGBTQIA+, News, Politics
The saga continues. Despite this summer’s Supreme Court ruling that made same-sex marriage legal in all 50 U.S. states, Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis still refuses to issue marriage licenses in a religious protest of the Supreme Court’s ruling. As predicted by Florida...
by admin | Aug 20, 2015 | Equality, LGBTQIA+, News
On August 13th a Colorado appeals court ruled that a Denver-area baker is unable to use his religious beliefs as a reason to refuse making a wedding cake for a gay couple planning to get married. The Colorado Court of Appeals rejected the argument by lawyers for the...