Oklahoma

Today, Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin signed SB 1140, a license-to-discriminate bill that would allow taxpayer-funded child welfare agencies to reject foster or adoptive parents based upon the agency’s religious beliefs.

Five leading national civil and LGBT rights organizations late yesterday filed an amicus (friend-of-the-court) brief in the multi-state lawsuit challenging the Obama administration’s guidance regarding public school districts’ responsibility to allow transgender students to use the same restrooms as other students.

Today the U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed an important principle — that Title VII the section of the Civil Rights Act that protects employment — means what it says and should not be tinkered with by judges.

Why Lambda Legal supported this religious accommodation claim.