Wednesday, Judge Todd Hernandez of the 19th Judicial District Court struck down Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards’ executive order protecting LGBTQ state workers and contractors from discrimination. Judge Hernandez delivered the ruling as the result of a dispute between Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, a Republican, and the Democratic governor, reported The Washington Blade. “The court…
Fliers distributed by the Ku Klux Klan in a recruitment drive in Louisiana contain anti-gay and racist hate speech. “Stop Aids: Support Gay Bashing,” one flier distributed in Mandeville said. “Homosexual men and their sexual acts are disgusting and inhuman.” The flier also called to ban “non-white immigration,” and to “deport mud people,” reports Raw…
Anti-gay Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) has been relentlessly resisting the Supreme Court’s historic decision that made same-sex marriage legal in every state. On Thursday, the federal trial court in New Orleans released a ruling that ended Jindal’s nearly weeklong effort to hold out, reported The Huffington Post. U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman officially struck…
Today, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s efforts to pass one of his top priorities, anti-LGBT HB 707, were dealt a major setback. By a bipartisan vote of 10-2 to “return to calendar without amendments,” the bill was potentially killed for the session. Jindal, who has variously been named the nation’s least popular governor in 2013, 2014,…
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal used his State of the State address yesterday to declare that enacting Indiana-style anti-LGBT legislation was one of his top three priorities as governor. “I know there has been legislation filed this session that aims to protect religio us liberty rights in Louisiana,” Jindal said. “Let me be crystal clear –…
The U.S. Supreme Court has distributed a Louisiana marriage equality case for its January 9, 2015 conference. The justices will deliberate whether to take up Robicheaux v. George on appeal after a federal district court upheld the state’s ban on marriage for same-sex couples in September of this year. In response to today’s news, Human…
WASHINGTON – Next month Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal will host an event on the campus of Louisiana State University sponsored by the American Family Association (AFA) – an organization that has called for an “Underground Railroad” to take children from gay and lesbian parents and claims the Boy Scouts of America would be better off…
The GOP started the 2014 cycle with high hopes and a clear path to the Senate majority. Despite Democratic gains in 2012, Republicans needed only 6 of the 7 Democratic controlled seats in states won by Mitt Romney: Alaska, Arkansas, Montana, South Dakota, West Virginia, Louisiana and North Carolina. Naturally, things have not remained so…
Today U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman ruled to uphold Louisiana’s ban on marriage equality. Until today, no state marriage ban had survived a federal court ruling since the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its historic marriage decision in United States v. Windsor last summer. In response to today’s rulings, Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Legal Director…
To the chagrin of many in the audience, Phil Robertson was honored at commencement ceremonies held last Saturday at Louisiana Tech University which caused outrage and walk-outs over the awarding of the schools prestigious Tower Medallion award to the Duck Dynasty patriarch, reality star and preacher. The announcement, made less than 24 hours before, had…
