December 15, 2017 by Erin Fitzgerald Southern Poverty Law Center This week MCC hosted a day-long event on “understanding the nature of man and of woman” that was stacked with discredited speakers known for pushing anti-LGBT junk science. On Monday, December 11, the Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota hosted a symposium featuring several anti-LGBT hate groups along with other discredited far-right extremists. The symposium, titled “Man, Woman, and the Order of [...]

Failed Senate candidate Roy Moore is very upset with gay people after his election defeat. The Republican candidate for Alabama’s US Senate seat, who has said that “homosexual conduct” should be illegal, lost to Democrat Doug Jones this week in a surprise upset – by a margin of 20,000 votes. Moore, an anti-LGBT extremist, was rocked by scandal during the campaign after he was accused of sexual misconduct and child molestation by nine women. Several of the women were underage at the time, [...]

The Supreme Court says it will not take up a challenge to a Mississippi law that allows businesses and government officials to deny services to LGBT people if doing so would conflict with certain "sincerely held" religious beliefs. By rejecting the cases, the top court leaves in place a federal appeals court decision that allowed the 2016 law to take effect. It came into force in October. "We had challenged it before it went into effect ... before people were hurt [...]

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