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- LGBTQ Rights
SPLC condemns anti-LGBT law in Mississippi
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant signed an anti-LGBT bill into law today that will allow businesses and government workers to refuse services based on their religious beliefs.
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- LGBTQ Rights
Tennessee lawmakers should stay out of students’ restrooms
No student should feel singled out at school for being different.
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- LGBTQ Rights
U.S. Supreme Court delivers another blow to conversion therapy industry
The U.S. Supreme Court recently declined for the third time to hear a challenge to the constitutionality of a state law banning “conversion therapy” for minors.
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- LGBTQ Rights
SPLC, others file federal consumer fraud complaint against conversion therapy group
A Virginia-based group is committing consumer fraud by offering services it claims can convert people from gay to straight – deceptive practices that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) must stop, according to a federal complaint the Southern Poverty Law Center and other civil rights groups filed with the FTC today.
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- LGBTQ Rights
Settlement reached in SPLC case that highlighted plight of transgender prisoners
The SPLC case that brought international attention to the medical neglect and abuse of transgender prisoners has ended with a settlement agreement.
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- LGBTQ Rights
‘Religious Liberty’ and the Anti-LGBT Right
The hardline groups promoting ‘religious freedom restoration acts’ to justify anti-gay discrimination.
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- LGBTQ Rights
SPLC calls for Chief Justice Moore’s removal from office in new ethics complaint
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore should be removed from the bench for advising state probate judges to enforce Alabama’s same-sex marriage ban, the Southern Poverty Law Center said in a new supplement filed today in its ongoing ethics complaint against Moore.
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- LGBTQ Rights
SPLC suit forces New Jersey group to cease bogus ‘conversion therapy’ program, pay damages
A gay-to-straight “conversion therapy” provider found by a New Jersey jury to have violated the state’s consumer fraud protections will permanently cease operations and dissolve its corporate entity as part of a settlement that precludes an appeal of a jury’s verdict in the landmark lawsuit.
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- LGBTQ Rights
SPLC brief: School restroom policies should recognize students’ gender identity
Transgender students thrive when school restroom policies respect their gender identity.
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- LGBTQ Rights
SPLC ethics complaint: Alabama Supreme Court justice violated judicial ethics on extremist radio show
Justice Tom Parker derided federal judiciary and suggested that Alabama should defy the U.S. Supreme Court’s marriage equality decision.