Tag Archives: Religious Liberty

“You’re just a bigot lady, I think you are an ignorant bigot.”   In the wake of yesterday’s news that eleven states would be suing the Obama administration following it’s directive ordering public schools to allow transgender students access to restrooms corresponding with their gender identity, it is refreshing to …

Texas becomes second state to sue Federal Government over “bathroom bill.”   Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton will file a lawsuit against the Obama administration on behalf of nearly a dozen states following its directive ordering public schools to allow transgender students access to restrooms corresponding with their gender identity. Arizona. …

State legislature filed a measure calling for impeachment along with egregious bill allowing for “separate but equal” bathrooms for evangelicals claiming “religious liberty.”   The GOP-dominated legislature in Oklahoma is taking extremism to a new level, filing a measure calling for President Barack Obama’s impeachment over his administration’s recommendations (which, …

Obama’s directive and DOJ’s lawsuit against North Carolina seen as controversial   To many, the debate over the “Bathroom Bill” – the North Carolina law known formally as HB2, mandating that transgender people use the restroom corresponding to their biologically assigned gender – is a nonissue, an inherent distraction from the …

Conservative governor tells GOP delegates “Obama is turning bathrooms into courtrooms issues. I want you to know, I am working with the governor of North Carolina, and we are going to fight back.”   On International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia, Texas Governor Greg Abbott had something peculiar to say …

Brave mother confidently destroys the GOP argument that gender identity is simply a man “saying he feels like a woman today”   Hope Tyler, mother to a transgender teen in North Carolina, is a brave woman, and tired of GOP lawmakers continuing to stigmatize her child and the trans community. Speaking …

Over the last few weeks, passionate arguments have been made in support of or against House Bill 2, the bill that requires transgender people in North Carolina to use the bathroom of the sex listed on their birth certificate. I even saw a long, eloquent post on an acquaintance’s Facebook …

Responding in the wake of the Department of Justice’s counter-suit against North Carolina, NC Gov. says federal government should undo hallmark legislation of the 1960s. This is how it starts. North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory is still refusing to admit that his “bathroom bill” – the law known formally as …

Top GOP leaders say they aren’t phased by DOJ’s threat to pull upwards of $800 million annually in federal funding State GOP leaders in North Carolina said Thursday that they are refusing to back down from the now infamous HB2 (more commonly referred to as the “Bathroom Bill”), a law regulating …

Police say she isn’t dressed the way a woman “is supposed to dress.” A video showing an unidentified woman being forcibly removed by police officers in North Carolina for “not looking like a woman” is rapidly going viral in the wake of HB2 and the so-called “Bathroom Bills” of North …

Ah, the Deep South strikes again. As fiery debates over so-called “Bathroom Bills” rages nationwide in the aftermath of North Carolina’s passing of HB2 – including recent statements from GOP presidential hopefuls encouraging transpeople to urinate at home and “not intrude upon the rights of others” – an Alabama town isn’t mincing …

Equates peeing to “imposing your lifestyle on others” Following North Carolina’s passing of HB2, the so-called “Bathroom Bill” which along with barring local and countywide officials from passing ordinances prohibiting discrimination against LGBT persons also stipulates that trans-people must use the bathroom of their “biological origin,” similarly discriminatory legislation has begun …

“When trying to explain what had happened to the Cruz volunteers outside, they just laughed at us” A transgender teenager and his mother were forcibly removed from a Ted Cruz rally yesterday in Maryland before it began, even though they had tickets to the event and were peacefully (and silently) protesting …

Company issues official statement titled “Continuing to Stand for Inclusivity” As states and school districts across the country in GOP controlled legislatures grapple with laws and ordinances stipulating transgender bathroom – among other legalized discrimination under the guise of “Religious Liberty,” – one multinational retail giant is standing in solidarity against bigotry …

Executive Order protects rights of gay and transgender people in Louisiana Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards has signed into law via Executive Order an anti-discrimination bill protecting the rights of gay and transgender people, a strong message to his fellow deep southerners that “religious liberty” is not a justification for discrimination …