WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) today released the following statement in response to media reports that Donald Trump will require immigrants to pass an “ideological test” that would include interviews about their feelings about LGBTQ equality. “What’s craziest about this ignorant, incomprehensible plan is that Donald Trump and Mike Pence would fail…
WASHINGTON — The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Friday blasted Donald Trump for doubling down on his anti-equality agenda by choosing as his running mate Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, who has made virulent anti-LGBTQ activism a cornerstone of his political career. “Donald Trump just doubled down on his agenda of hate and discrimination by choosing the…
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has selected Indiana Gov. Mike Pence to be his running mate. IndyStar has confirmed that Trump plans to announce Pence as his selection for vice president at a press conference that will be held Friday. In Pence, Trump has added a social conservative who GOP strategists say will reassure…
With Donald Trump about to double down on his anti-LGBTQ agenda with the possibility of his appointing notoriously anti-LGBTQ Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as his running mate, HRC Tuesday released a memo revisiting Gov. Pence’s disastrous record. Gov. Pence became a national disgrace in 2015, for his “license to discriminate” bill that would have allowed…
The non-discrimination bill, SB 344, will not advance in the Indiana Senate. Although it was previously scheduled for a second hearing today, according to the bill’s author, the legislation will not be considered and will therefore fail to meet the required deadline this year. The legislation was an attempt to address the damning evidence that…
Last night the Indiana Senate Rules & Legislative Procedure Committee voted to advance legislation that would exclude any and all protections for transgender Hoosiers, would undermine existing protections for race and religion and would remove the authority of municipalities to pass any new, fully inclusive LGBT non-discrimination protections at the local level. In addition, the…
Indiana’s Senate Bill 66 – an anti-LGBT “Super RFRA” that would create sweeping exemptions encouraging people to pick and choose which laws they’re going to follow, has reportedly died in committee. The proposal would have allowed anyone who claims a religious exemption the right to discriminate against LGBT Hoosiers, visitors and other minorities. The legislation…
A brand new survey from Visit Indy is set to be released on Thursday that shows Indiana lost as much as $60 million in convention revenue alone because of last year’s disastrous and divisive Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) fight. As reported by the Associated Press late last night, “12 out-of-state groups were surveyed and…
WASHINGTON – Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) urged Indiana Governor Mike Pence to join the overwhelming majority of Hoosiers and endorse fully-inclusive non-discrimination protections for all LGBT people in Indiana during his State of the State address tomorrow night. In the year since Gov. Pence threw Indiana into chaos by signing a law allowing…
The Indiana Economic Development Corporation (IEDC) has cancelled the public relations contract it had signed to help repair the tremendous damage caused when Gov. Mike Pence signed the anti-LGBT so-called Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) into law. According to Chris W. Cotterill, executive vice president of the IEDC, the contract was cancelled in part because…
