Tag: LGBT

Trump brags that his new regulation enables taxpayer-funded religious discrimination against LGBT people, women

At Thursday’s National Day of Prayer event in the Rose Garden at the White House President Donald Trump bragged to the faithful that thanks to him new conscience rights protections have been implemented today for “for physicians, pharmacists, nurses, teachers, students and faith-based charities.”

Those “conscience rights” actually are designed to allow medical and education professionals, charities, and others, to refuse service to, and refuse to work with or do business with those people they hold a religious or moral objection to.

Among the Americans who will be discriminated against by the President’s new regulations are LGBTQ people, women seeking abortions, women seeking contraception products and services (even if not for abortion), same-sex couples, unmarried couples, and others.

View the complete May 2 article by David Badash from The New Civil Rights Movement on the AlterNet website here.

Doug Wardlow, LGBT rights and the gay man he allegedly bullied in high school

Ryan Durant holds a Eagan High School yearbook with a photo of Douglas Wardlow in Brooklyn Center on Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018. Credit: Jean Pieri, Pioneer Press

Republican attorney general candidate Doug Wardlow’s record of opposing some gay rights dates back years.

For Ryan Durant, a former high school classmate, Wardlow’s views aren’t just a question of policy. They’re personal.

Durant remembers Wardlow as a high school bully who repeatedly harassed him for being gay — and as the person who mocked him after he attempted suicide in the 10th grade. Both Durant and Wardlow attended Eagan High School and graduated in the class of 1997.

View the complete October 27 article by Ryan Faircloth on the Pioneer Press website here.

Pence keeps lying about supporting ex-gay therapy as his feud with gay Olympian escalates

The following article by Zack Ford was posted on the ThinkProgress website February 8, 2018:

Pence’s history of supporting conversion therapy isn’t “fake news.”

The feud between Vice President Mike Pence and gay Olympic skater Adam Rippon escalated again Thursday when Pence tweeted directly at the athlete, describing his history of supporting ex-gay conversion therapy as “fake news.”

Vice President Mike Pence

✔@VP

Headed to the Olympics to cheer on . One reporter trying to distort 18 yr old nonstory to sow seeds of division. We won’t let that happen! . Our athletes are the best in the world and we are for ALL of them!

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Businesses Lead the Way

The following article by Susan Milligan was posted on the U.S. News website October 13, 2017:

Corporate America has discovered that having LGBT-friendly policies helps the bottom line.

Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

PHILADELPHIA — In 1991, Tennessee-based Cracker Barrel made no bones about why it fired gay and lesbian workers, saying in a company memo that the firm’s “traditional American values” could not co-exist with those “whose sexual preference fails to demonstrate normal heterosexual values which have been the foundation of families in our society.”

This year, the restaurant and gift shop is a corporate partner at the Out & Equal Summit, an annual meeting of companies and organizations seeking to promote workplace equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. And putting its money where American consumers’ mouths are, the company handed out coupons offering a 35 percent discount on all online purchases into December, but only if buyers enter “EQUAL35” in the promo code line. Continue reading “Businesses Lead the Way”