Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments

The Do No Harm Act would clarify that federal law does not permit the use of religion to discriminate.

The Court concluded that the state of Missouri must allow churches to apply for a playground resurfacing grant on the same terms as other entities.

The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the injunction against Mississippi House Bill 1523, the discriminatory anti-LGBT legislation challenged in Barber v. Bryant, the federal lawsuit brought by Mississippi civil rights attorney Robert McDuff, the Mississippi Center for Justice and Lambda Legal.  The advocates will continue to fight this discriminatory law.

Gov. Abbott announced he would be including on the agenda for the special session reconsideration of misguided legislation driven by baseless fearmongering about transgender schoolchildren.