SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – Today, the Utah Legislature passed a bill repealing a state law prohibiting supportive discussions of “homosexuality” in public and charter school curricula and classrooms. The legislation passed with bipartisan support by a 27-1 vote in the Senate and a 68- 1 vote in the House. The bill now goes to…
WASHINGTON — Friday, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) filed a formal complaint and called for a full investigation into now-infamous Utah Judge Scott Johansen, who is reported to have ordered a child removed from the home of her married foster parents because they are a same-sex couple. If Johansen ordered the child be removed because…
A Utah judge today reversed his order to take a foster child away from a same-sex couple because of their sexual orientation, reports The New York Times. The judge, Scott N. Johansen of Juvenile Court, had issued an order Tuesday saying that the child, a 9-month-old girl, had to be removed from the home of…
A juvenile court judge in Utah has ordered a child removed from the home of her married foster parents because they are a same-sex couple. April Hoagland and Beckie Peirce of Carbon County, Utah, were stunned when Judge Scott Johansen ordered their foster child removed from their home, reports The Advocate. The judge said the…
Thousands of Utahns just discovered that their governor is welcoming an anti-gay hate group to Salt Lake City. Utahns heard the news directly thanks to a targeted Facebook campaign, crowdfunded by members of All Out, a global movement for the rights of lesbian, gay, bi and trans people. Gov. Gary Herbert plans to give a…
Utah governor, Gary Herbert has decided to address thousands of attendees at a massive gathering hosted by the World Congress of Families (WCF) this October. Designated an anti-LGBT hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, WCF’s upcoming conference in Salt Lake City will convene some of the most virulently anti-LGBT extremists from across the…
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir have declared their support of and possible participation in the upcoming World Congress of Families (WCF) conference in Salt Lake City later this year. In an event in Salt Lake City, conference Executive Director Janice Shaw Crouse announced…
After a marathon evening session, the Utah legislature gave final approval to S.B. 296, a non-discrimination bill extending existing employment and housing protections in Utah law to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. The bill was introduced last week, the result of a milestone compromise between LGBT advocates in Utah…
WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign has strongly condemned an extreme anti-equality bill introduced in the Utah House of Representatives and questioned whether the Mormon church is behind the bill. Geared toward undermining equality in a shroud of religious language, HB 322 – the so-called “Religious Liberty Recognition and Protection Act” – was introduced by…
In a historic day, a federal judge in Indiana struck down the state’s ban on same-sex marriage, followed almost immediately by the first appellate level win since last year’s Windsor decision as the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling that struck down Utah’s ban late last year. “I remember like it…
