WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump today signed an executive order that would allow religious organizations to endorse political candidates and expand participation in politics. The executive order signed today also enables private employers to use religion as a pretext to deny reproductive health care to their employees. “Faith is deeply embedded into the history of…
WASHINGTON — Today, the Human Rights Campaign joined other LGBTQ organizations, civil rights leaders and hundreds of supporters in front of the White House to rally and speak out against Trump’s #LicenseToDiscriminate Executive Order that would put millions of LGBTQ Americans at risk. Yesterday, Politico first reported that Donald Trump is planning to sign his…
President Donald Trump is expected to sign a religious exemptions executive order this Thursday. Politico reports that Trump has invited conservative leaders to the White House on that day for what they expect will be the ceremonial signing of a long-awaited—and highly controversial—executive order on religious liberty. Earlier this year, a leaked draft of this discriminatory…
Fresh off attending a conference whose host, Kevin Swanson, voiced support for the execution of gay people, Ted Cruz will stage a “Rally for Religious Liberty” in Greenville, South Carolina, today featuring a number of Religious Right activists who have referred to gay rights advocates as demonic enemies, reports Right Wing Watch. The rally is…
Today in Iowa candidates Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee and Bobby Jindal are scheduled to address the nation’s largest “religious liberty” gathering at the Freedom 2015 National Religious Liberties Conference. Radio Host Kevin Swanson, who organized the event, has a long history of anti-LGBT rhetoric from suggesting “the nazi party had their birth in a homosexual…
The Republican National Committee (RNC) has passed an anti-LGBT resolution in support of the First Amendment Defense Act (FADA). Going far beyond protecting the rights established in the First Amendment, this anti-LGBT legislation would undermine the rule of law and promote taxpayer-funded discrimination. FADA would prohibit any adverse action by the federal government against an individual…
