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Former North Dakota governor ‘probably’ considered LGBT people in 1981 policy
Former North Dakota Gov. Allen Olson said Tuesday he “probably” considered lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people when he crafted a nondiscrimination policy for state employees 34 years ago.
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Louisiana school backs off: Lesbian honors student allowed to wear tux to prom
A lesbian honors student in northeast Louisiana has been told she may wear a tuxedo to her prom, after all, a national advocacy group said Tuesday.
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Four West Coast mayors lift bans on city-funded travel to Indiana
The mayors of four West Coast cities say they’re lifting bans imposed on city-funded travel to Indiana after changes were made to that state’s religious objections law to make clear it can’t be used to discriminate.
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Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal supports bill allowing businesses to refuse service to LGBT people
Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal, rumored to be mulling a 2016 GOP presidential bid, says he will support a controversial religious freedom bill filed by a state legislator last week.
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Kentucky’s Rand Paul, who says same-sex marriage is the result of a moral crisis, is running for president
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky has entered the campaign for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination with a declaration that he’s running for the White House to “return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government.”
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Utah’s lone openly gay lawmaker to run for mayor of Salt Lake City
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah’s Democratic state Sen. Jim Dabakis, the state legislature’s only openly gay lawmaker, announced Monday that he will run for mayor of Salt Lake City this year.
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North Dakota governor issues memo to state agencies barring discrimination against gays
GOP Gov. Jack Dalrymple told government departments Monday that discrimination against anyone is unacceptable, just two hours before Democrats delivered a letter calling on him to issue an executive order prohibiting bias against gays and lesbians.
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Ted Cruz threatens to strip federal courts of jurisdiction over marriage equality
U.S. Sen. Tex Cruz (R-Texas), so far the only announced GOP candidate for president, on Monday threatened to prod Congress to strip the federal courts of its jurisdiciton of marriage cases if the U.S. Supreme Court rules this summer in favor of marriage equality.
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Handful of holdout Native American tribes stand firm against same-sex marriage
Even if a U.S. Supreme Court ruling this spring makes same-sex marriage the law, it would leave pockets of the country where it isn’t likely to be recognized any time soon: the reservations of a handful of sovereign Native American tribes, including the two largest.
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Pat Robertson: No gay marriage because no one ever conceived a child through anal intercourse
Today on “The 700 Club,” Pat Robertson went on one of his patented rants about anal sex, arguing that he will never change his mind about gay marriage until someone proves that anal sex can lead to pregnancy.
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Texas could be next state engulfed in religious freedom debate
Could the uproar over religious freedom laws that engulfed Indiana and Arkansas be coming to Texas? The next couple weeks in the Legislature should provide the answer.
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Indiana faces long road to restore battered image after religious freedom law
Indiana tourism agencies are rolling out campaigns emphasizing that everyone is welcome, but it might not be enough to quickly restore the state’s battered image after a backlash over its religious objections law.
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Santorum invokes Westboro’s ‘God hates fags’ slogan to defend religious freedom laws
Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), on Sunday said he supports “religious freedom” laws like those in Indiana and Arkansas, and that they are not meant to discriminate against gays and lesbians.
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Marriage News Watch: April 6, 2015
Michigan says that they don’t want to let gay people get married because that would be demeaning to gay people and Kentucky says that their marriage ban isn’t discriminatory, since LGBTs are free to get straight-married…
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Two teens charged in hate crime attack on gay man in Florida
Police in Orlando, Fla., said a 32-year-old man who was attacked last month by two teenage brothers and several others was targeted because he’s gay.
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15 states urge U.S. Supreme Court to uphold same-sex marriage bans
Eight states where same-sex couples can marry are among 15 states urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold same-sex marriage bans and leave the matter to voters and lawmakers.
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Commentary
Put a ring on it: Why marriage matters
While the LGBT community continues to battle discriminatory legislation in states across the country, it gives me some measure of comfort to know that this month the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in the long-raging debate over same gender marriage.
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Top Mormon leaders vow to be leading advocates for marriage exclusive to a man and a woman
Mormon leaders vowed to be a leading advocate for the belief that marriage is an institution exclusive to a man and a woman during the religion’s biannual conference in Salt Lake City this weekend.
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LGBT rights rally goes to Indianapolis NCAA Final Four site
Hundreds of people calling for Indiana to add protections for gays and transgender individuals to the state’s civil-rights laws marched through downtown Indianapolis Saturday, attracting the attention basketball fans attending the NCAA Final Four, some of whom offered the protesters cheers of support.
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New York, Connecticut governors lift bans on state-funded travel to Indiana
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy on Saturday lifted their bans on some state-funded travel to Indiana, citing changes made to a religious-objections law that had spurred concern about anti-gay discrimination.