LGBTQ & Human Rights - Page 10 of 26
September 4th, 2019
After learning that her brother and his fiancée had been turned down by a wedding venue in their small Mississippi hometown, Lakambria Welch thought there must have been a mistake. She drove down to Boone's Camp Event Hall in Booneville, MS to sort things out with the owner. But Welch couldn’t have been prepared for the conversation that followed.
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August 16th, 2019
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker just signed into law a bill that ensures all public school students in Illinois learn about the contributions and history of the LGBT movement in American history.
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July 12th, 2019
A prominent NYC pastor and long-time advocate for immigrant rights is suing the federal government after she was placed on a federal watchlist for conducting ministry work with migrants south of the border.
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July 12th, 2019
After his 2015 expulsion from the University of Sheffield for calling gay marriage "sinful" on Facebook, Felix Ngole won the right to another hearing on appeal. Now the school will again determine if expressing anti-gay sentiment on social media justifies student expulsion.
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June 27th, 2019
The Drag Queen Story Hour event in Spokane, Washington drew hundreds of protesters and counter-protesters to the South Hill Library. Across the country, people are up in arms about drag queens reading books to children.
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June 27th, 2019
The frosting is not yet set on this cake. That was the message sent by the United States Supreme Court after it vacated a ruling that effectively put a pair of Christian bakers out of business for sticking to their religious guns.
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June 26th, 2019
A Catholic high school in Indianapolis let a gay teacher go after months of negotiation. The Catholic Archdiocese told them to fire the teacher or lose their Catholic affiliation. Now community members are outraged.
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June 17th, 2019
Apparently feeling threatened by the growing popularity of progressive views on gender and sexual orientation, the Vatican is trying to promote a “positive and prudent sexual education” which stresses to students the “full original truth of masculinity and femininity.”
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June 14th, 2019
The Pew Research Center's Religious Landscape Study found that LGBT adults are losing their religion. Is a lack of Evangelical acceptance driving LGBT adults away from church pews, or is it something else?
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