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Oregon Courts Are Right To Reject Religious License to Discriminate

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By Lambda Legal

March 15, 2018

Lambda Legal today urged the Oregon Supreme Court to deny a petition from the former owners of an Oregon bakery seeking to overturn a lower court ruling that they violated Oregon's anti-discrimination law in 2013 when they refused to sell a wedding cake to a lesbian couple because they claimed it was against their religion.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Marriage, Religious Exemptions, Same-sex relationships, Oregon
Oregon Court Rules Against Bakery That Refused to Bake Wedding Cake for Lesbian Couple

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By Nancy Marcus

December 28, 2017

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

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Law & Policy Project, public accommodations, Religious Exemptions, Religiously Motivated Discrimination, Oregon
That Case About the Baker Who Refused to Make a Cake for a Gay Wedding? It's Not About the Cake.

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By Rachel B. Tiven

October 30, 2017

This is not about a cake. It’s about licensing cradle to grave discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.

See Also: Religious Exemptions
Lambda Legal to High Court: Religious License to Discriminate Harms LGBT People from Cradle to Grave

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By Lambda Legal

October 30, 2017

Lambda Legal, joined by Family Equality Council and 11 other organizations, today submitted a friend-of-the-court brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission detailing the multiple everyday experiences of hundreds of LGBT individuals, same-sex couples and their families who have faced discrimination.

See Also: Religious Exemptions, Colorado
Lambda Legal and Advocates Urge Supreme Court to Strike Down Anti-LGBT Mississippi Law

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By Lambda Legal

October 10, 2017

See Also: Anti-LGBT Legislation and Amendments, Marriage, Religious Exemptions, Same-sex relationships, Transgender Rights, Mississippi
Lambda Legal Tells Supreme Court to Stop Trump's Muslim Ban

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By Sharon McGowan

September 18, 2017

Lambda Legal has added its name to a brief filed in the Supreme Court opposing President Trump’s “Muslim Ban.”

See Also: Immigration, Religious Exemptions
Texas Senate Passes Damaging Child Welfare Bill: Lambda Legal Urges Governor to Veto

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By Lambda Legal

May 22, 2017

"Those agencies that won't commit to putting children's needs first, and to nondiscrimination as a core promise to children and families, must not be allowed to operate as agents of the government."

See Also: Adoption and Parenting, Law & Policy Project, Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Religious Exemptions, Same-sex relationships, Teens & Young Adults, Youth in Out-of-Home Care, Texas
What Donald Trump's Religious Liberty Executive Order Does – and Doesn’t Do – and Why You Should Still Be Worried

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By Sharon McGowan

May 5, 2017

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

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Religious Exemptions, Religiously Motivated Discrimination, Resistance
Today We Were in Court at the 5th Circuit Fighting Mississippi's Anti-LGBT Law

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By Lambda Legal

April 3, 2017

See Also: Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Religious Exemptions, Stand Up to Defeat DOMA!, Mississippi
Meet The People Fighting Mississippi's Hateful Anti-LGBT HB 1523

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By Lambda Legal

April 3, 2017

Meet our plaintiffs in Barber v. Bryant, Lambda Legal's case with co-counsel against Mississippi's hateful HB 1523.

See Also: Religious Exemptions, Mississippi

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