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 25, 2015 | LGBTQIA+, News, Politics
Religion and politics are inextricably tied together, especially in the Republican Party, which is in the beginning stages of the primary process that will determine who will be the GOP’s candidate in 2016. After the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage decision was made...
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...
by admin | Dec 20, 2013 | Articles, Gender, News, Women's Rights
In a recent Huffington Post article titled, “God, Sex and Corporate Personhood,” author Carol Howard Merritt discusses the ways in which religious freedoms and women’s rights so often overlap and contradict one another. Howard Merritt, an author, pastor, and co-host...
