WASHINGTON (AP) — A majority of Supreme Court justices on Tuesday seemed to lean in favor of a Christian counselor challenging bans on LGBTQ+ “conversion therapy” for kids as a violation of her First Amendment rights. Listen in the player above. Kaley Chiles, with support from President Donald Trump’s administration ...
... a state senator in Texas issued a list of 850 books to be removed from school shelves. And they were mainly targeting books that had LGBTQ characters, race, and sexuality. And I then learned about a small group of librarians in Texas calling themselves the Freedom Fighters, who were speaking ...
... of what is speech and what is conduct, but this is also the latest in a series of cases involving religious people and speech and LGBTQ people. We had two cases earlier involving the man who didn't want to make a cake for same-sex weddings, the woman who ...
... s "Forever" and Jennifer Niven's "Breathless," and numerous works by Sarah J. Maas and Jodi Picoult. Reasons often cited for pulling a book include LGBTQ+ themes, depictions of race and passages with violence and sexual violence. An ongoing trend that PEN finds has only intensified: Thousands of books were ...
... been told from previous administrations that “our diversity is our strength,” which he called an “insane fallacy.” “They had to put out dizzying DEI and LGBTQE+ statements. They were told females and males are the same thing, or that males who think they’re females is totally normal,” he said ...
Nelson also made headlines the next year when he repealed rules that banned baptisms for children of gay parents and labeled same-sex couples as sinners eligible for expulsion. Those 2015 policies had generated widespread backlash. But even though Nelson’s administration was gentler and more welcoming to LGBTQ+ people ...
... you know, for example, women in same sex relationships rely on egg freezing to have biological children. And so the motivations are certainly different for LGBTQ people or solo parents by choice, et cetera. Ali Rogin: And Lucky, egg freezing is far from a guarantee. How much should patients be ...
... She said Tuesday he was the inspiration for her time in public service and a unifying figure among environmentalists, reproductive and immigrant rights advocates, and LGBTQ+ organizers who were seeking justice and equality. “Fifty years later, that movement is alive and well in all of us,” she said in a ...
Paulette Granberry Russell: I think across the country we've seen efforts both at the state level and certainly more recently with the executive orders to dismantle diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. We are seeing women's centers, we're seeing centers for members of the LGBTQ community, other cultural ...
... independence was coming “at a time when our country's current administration is attacking civil rights, voting rights, the rights of immigrants, women and the LGBTQ community.” WATCH: How Ben & Jerry’s is recycling food waste into energy “Standing up for the values of justice, equity, and our shared ...
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