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Franklin Graham says LGBT community targets Christians to accept lifestyle: ‘It ain’t gonna happen’
December 21, 2017 By Sarah Taylor The Blaze Evangelist Franklin Graham on Wednesday said that though he loves those in the LGBT community, he won’t be coerced into accepting the LGBT lifestyle. What are the details? Graham, who is also president of the Billy [...]
Anti-LGBT Roundup of events and activities 12/21/17
December 21, 2017 By Hatewatch Staff Southern Poverty Law Center Former director of ADF International, Benjamin Bull, has taken a position with the Plano, Texas-based anti-LGBT and anti-choice group First Liberty Institute. Bull has been charged with launching and leading First Liberty’s efforts in Washington, D.C. Bull [...]
Transgender Bojangles’ worker claimed bosses harassed her. Now the company must pay.
December 21, 2017 BY KATHERINE PERALTA The Charlotte Observer Charlotte-based Bojangles’ has been ordered to pay $15,000 to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit from a transgender former employee at one of its restaurants in Fayetteville. According to the initial complaint filed by the U.S. [...]
Nearly a third of Trump judicial nominees are anti-LGBT
December 20, 2017 BY LYDIA WHEELER The Hill Nearly a third of President Trump’s judicial nominees have records that demonstrate hostility towards the rights of LGBT people, according to a new analysis released Wednesday by Lambda Legal. The LGBT advocacy group said one-in-three, or 16 [...]
This young man is transgender, and ready to enlist Jan. 1
December 19, 2017 By Tara Copp Navy Times Nicolas Talbott is openly transgender. Come Jan. 1, if the courts allow, he will enlist in the U.S. military. The 24-year-old from Ohio has worked with a recruiter since June 2016 to be ready for that [...]
Report of banned words at CDC alarms LGBT health experts
December 18, 2017 By Chris Johnson Washington Blade A recent report in the Washington Post that the Centers for Disease Control is barred from using certain words like “fetus,” “diversity” and “transgender” in budget documents alarmed LGBT and HIV/AIDS health experts, although the agency [...]
Judge who refused to hear adoption cases for LGBT couples refused to appear at his disciplinary hearing
December 16, 2017 By BOB BRIGHAM RAWSTORY judge in southern Kentucky skipped his Friday disciplinary hearing examining allegations that he refused to hear adoption cases involving gay, lesbian or bisexual adults. Judge W. Mitchell Nance, a family court judge for Barren and Metcalfe counties, was [...]
What Has Sen.-Elect Doug Jones Said About LGBT Rights?
DECEMBER 15 2017 BY TRUDY RING THE ADVOCATE Democrat Doug Jones, who will be Alabama’s next U.S. senator, beat one of the nation’s worst homophobes, former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, in a special election Tuesday. Jones is obviously preferable to Moore — [...]