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National Center for Lesbian Rights scheduled to speak out against Trump’s anti-LGBTQ executive order at today’s D.C. rally

by NCLR Staff | May 3, 2017 | LGBTQ, executive order, LGBTQ discrimination, religious liberty

(Washington, DC, May 3, 2017)—This afternoon, LGBTQ community members, advocates, religious leaders, and others will gather across the street from the White House to speak out against the religious liberties executive order that will reportedly be signed tomorrow by Trump. Leaked previous versions of this executive order sanctioned discrimination against the LGBTQ community and scaled back access to health care for women under a distorted interpretation of religious liberty. At the rally this...

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Kentucky family law judge recuses himself from all LGBTQ adoption cases because of homophobic personal views

by NCLR Staff | May 2, 2017 | LGBTQ, family law, adoption

(San Francisco, CA, May 2, 2017)—In Kentucky, family court judge W. Mitchell Nance has issued an order recusing himself from adoption cases involving “homosexual parties.” The order was sent last week to all attorneys in Kentucky’s Barren and Metcalfe counties, calling it a “matter of conscience” and stating there is no circumstance in which “the best interest of the child be promoted by the adoption by a practicing homosexual.” National Center for Lesbian Rights Family Law Director Cathy...

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NCLR speaks out against today’s resolution allowing states to withhold funding from Planned Parenthood

by NCLR Staff | Apr 13, 2017 | LGBTQ, health care, Planned Parenthood, Title X, Abortion

NCLR says “when opponents of reproductive health target Planned Parenthood, they target us” (San Francisco, CA, April 13, 2017)—Today, President Trump signed a resolution allowing states to withhold Title X family planning funds from health care providers that provide abortion care. This resolution overturned a rule enacted by the Obama Administration that prevented states from denying Title X reimbursement to qualified providers. NCLR Policy Director Julianna S. Gonen, Esq....

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Standing Up to Attempts to Take Down Marriage Equality.

by Kate Kendell, Esq. | Apr 13, 2017 | Uncategorized | LGBTQ, North Carolina, Obergefell, marriage equality

In North Carolina this week, anti-LGBTQ extremists tried to do the unthinkable. They introduced House Bill 780, also known as the “Uphold Historical Marriage Act” in an attempt to turn back the clock and, once again, whip up anti-LGBTQ sentiment. The bill directly challenges the Supreme Court’s 2015 marriage equality ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges by seeking to nullify same-sex couples’ marriages. North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper weighed in yesterday: “This bill is wrong. We need more...

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