130 major organizations urge Obama administration to rescind discriminatory Bush-era ‘Religious Freedom’ memo

WASHINGTON – Today 130 major religious, education, civil rights, labor, LGBT, women’s, and health organizations delivered a letter to President Obama urging him to review and reconsider a memo from the Office of Legal Counsel that has been used to permit taxpayer funded discrimination. The letter warns that the 2007 memo “reaches the erroneous and…

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HRC sends new case study to 12 state legislatures: ‘Don’t Repeat the Mistakes of Indiana’

WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign has sent a new case study to state lawmakers across the country urging them to reject anti-LGBT bills like the religious refusal bill in Indiana that would put LGBT people at risk for discrimination. The case study comes after the Indianapolis Star reported this week that the state “plans…

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