Tag: anti-LGBT
Major Corporations, Business Leaders, & Sports Teams Speak Out Against H.B. 757
Earlier this week, Georgia’s legislature sent Governor Nathan Deal the bill that could weaken local non-discrimination protections and allow businesses to discriminate and deny service to LGBT people, in addition to explicitly allowing discrimination by taxpayer-funded religious organisations.
Only In America : Kansas Sends Legislative Attack on LGBT College Students to Governor
America’s largest LGBT civil rights organisation urges Governor Sam Brownback to veto legislation that would put LGBT college students at even greater risk of unfair and unjust discrimination.
National Child Welfare Advocates Issue Letter Opposing Nebraska ’s Anti-LGBT Adoption Bill
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organisation today released a letter from leading national child welfare agencies opposing a bill in the Nebraska Unicam, LB 975, which would enshrine discrimination into Nebraska law by allowing taxpayer-funded adoption agencies to reject prospective parents based on “the child placing agency’s sincerely held religious beliefs.”
Anti-LGBT Bill Advances in Kansas Allowing Student Groups to Discriminate, Exclude LGBT Members
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organisation yesterday sharply condemned SB 175, a bill that passed in the Kansas House yesterday by a vote of 80-39 that would put LGBT college students at risk of discrimination.
Senator Jeanne Shaheen Introduces Global Respect Act in U.S. Senate
HRC hailed the introduction of the Global Respect Act in the Senate by Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH). The bill would provide a new mechanism to prevent the world’s most anti-LGBT state actors from receiving a visa and entering the United States. The Global Respect Act would make clear to the world that the U.S. is not open to those who abuse, harass, and murder LGBT people.
HISTORIC Filibuster to Stop Anti-LGBT Legislative Assault in Missouri Enters 17th Hour
With the fate of vicious legislation hanging in the balance, pro-equality state senators simply refuse to let anti-equality majority advance outrageous proposal attacking LGBT Missourians and their families.