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Lambda Legal and 75 National, State & Local Orgs To HHS: Don't Grant South Carolina a License to Discriminate

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By Lambda Legal

November 19, 2018

Today, Lambda Legal and 75 national and state civil rights, child welfare, and faith organizations submitted a letter to U.S. Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Secretary Alex Azar urging him not to grant South Carolina’s request for an exemption from federal nondiscrimination law for faith-based, government-funded child welfare providers.

See Also: Adoption and Parenting, Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Religious Exemptions, Teens & Young Adults, Youth in Out-of-Home Care, New York
Lambda Legal Urges Third Circuit to Uphold Ruling Protecting LGBTQ Foster Youth and Parents

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By Lambda Legal

October 5, 2018

By seeking out a license to discriminate against same-sex couples, CSS harms the very children it purports to serve.

See Also: Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Religious Exemptions, Same-sex relationships, Youth in Out-of-Home Care, Pennsylvania
Lambda Legal Raises Alarm over Supreme Court Order Reversing Washington Religious Exemptions Decision That Enforced State Nondiscrimination Law

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By Lambda Legal

June 25, 2018

The U.S. Supreme Court today decided to overturn the unanimous decision of the Washington Supreme Court ruling that a Richland, WA florist had violated the Washington Law Against Discrimination when she refused to sell flowers to a same-sex couple for their wedding.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Marriage, Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Religious Exemptions, Same-sex relationships, Washington
Supreme Court Fails to Affirm LGBT Equality Rights

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By Lambda Legal

June 4, 2018

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court handed the religious right a limited, fact-specific victory, ruling that the Colorado civil rights agency violated the religious rights of a Denver baker who refused to sell a same-sex couple a wedding cake.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Religious Exemptions
Kansas Adds Name to Roll of States Denying Children Loving Families

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By Lambda Legal

May 18, 2018

Today, Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer signed into law Kansas SB 284, a license-to-discriminate bill that allows taxpayer-funded child welfare agencies to reject foster or adoptive parents based upon the agency's religious beliefs.

See Also: Adoption and Parenting, Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Religious Exemptions, Teens & Young Adults, Youth in Out-of-Home Care, Kansas
Oklahoma Becomes First State In 2018 To Sign Anti-LGBTQ Legislation Into Law

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By Lambda Legal

May 11, 2018

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.

See Also: Adoption and Parenting, Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Religious Exemptions, Teens & Young Adults, Youth in Out-of-Home Care, Oklahoma
Oklahoma and Kansas License-to-Discriminate Bills Deny Children Loving Families

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By Lambda Legal

May 4, 2018

The governors of Oklahoma and Kansas must veto these damaging child welfare bills, not compete to see who will become the first in 2018 to sign discrimination into law and withhold loving homes from vulnerable children.

See Also: Adoption and Parenting, Anti-LGBT Rulings, LAWS AND AMENDMENTS, Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Religious Exemptions, Teens & Young Adults, Youth in Out-of-Home Care, Kansas, Oklahoma
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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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
Real LGBT Voices from Lambda Legal Brief Heard in Supreme Court Fight About Cake

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December 8, 2017

We brought the stories of thousands of LGBT people and people with living with HIV right into the justices’ chambers.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Marriage, Religious Exemptions, Same-sex relationships

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Lambda Legal and 75 National, State & Local Orgs To HHS: Don't Grant South Carolina a License to Discriminate

sad_child.jpeg

Lambda Legal Urges Third Circuit to Uphold Ruling Protecting LGBTQ Foster Youth and Parents

blog-lgbt-youth.jpg

Lambda Legal Raises Alarm over Supreme Court Order Reversing Washington Religious Exemptions Decision That Enforced State Nondiscrimination Law

flowers.jpg

Supreme Court Fails to Affirm LGBT Equality Rights

scotus_mast.jpg

Kansas Adds Name to Roll of States Denying Children Loving Families

sad_ballerina.jpg

Oklahoma Becomes First State In 2018 To Sign Anti-LGBTQ Legislation Into Law

boy-1666611_1920_1.jpg

Oklahoma and Kansas License-to-Discriminate Bills Deny Children Loving Families

oklahoma_kidspayprice_r1.png

Oregon Courts Are Right To Reject Religious License to Discriminate

sweetcakes.png

Oregon Court Rules Against Bakery That Refused to Bake Wedding Cake for Lesbian Couple

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Real LGBT Voices from Lambda Legal Brief Heard in Supreme Court Fight About Cake

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