Religiously Motivated Discrimination

Lambda Legal published an analysis of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) new rule, issued earlier in the day, creating a new unit within the HHS Office of Civil Rights (OCR) called the “Conscience and Religious Freedom Division.”

It's a decision that is both critically important and completely unsurprising.

With yesteday’s Executive Order, Donald Trump handed out razors to every anti-LGBTQ zealot that he has put in place in his administration.

Lambda Legal has filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the Oregon Court of Appeals in a case of an Oregon bakery that refused to bake a wedding cake for a lesbian couple.

“All I want is to use the appropriate restroom, in peace, just like everyone else. It’s humiliating that this law separates me from my peers and treats me like a second-class citizen,” said Joaquín Carcaño, 28, a UNC-Chapel Hill employee and transgender man who is the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit.

Discrimination is expensive and the legislature’s refusal to repeal the law just cost the state tens of millions of dollars.

When you’re from Tennessee, you learn a way of thinking and talking about the, shall we say, less inspiring chapters of your state’s history.