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Does Missouri have a ‘God-given right to discriminate’?

For more than 20 years, Missouri has failed to enact the Missouri Nondiscrimination Act (MONA) into law, a bill that would expand the state’s civil rights protections to include LGBTQ people.  But rather than work toward that goal, state House lawmakers…

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Liberty Counsel: Pro-religious freedom or anti-LGBT hate group?

The legal organization behind the Masterpiece Cakeshop case is accusing the State Department of promoting “the LGBT agenda.” Liberty Counsel likes to portray itself as a group fighting for religious freedom. They ground many of the fights they pick on…

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Trolls behind Buttigieg smear campaign busted again.

Internet troll and rightwing extremists Jacob Wohl and and Jack Burkman were revealed last week as the masterminds behind a clumsy attempt to smear out presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg. Now the bunglers have been busted trying to organize a fake…

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The battle between religious liberty and LGBT rights at HHS.

For almost a decade, a battle over religious liberty, abortion, and LGBTQ medical care has been playing out dramatically in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Religious conservatives, who are predominantly Christian and have enormous sway in the…

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Here’s what to know about the SCOTUS LGBT rights cases.

The Supreme Court is set to rule on whether LGBT Americans are protected by federal anti-discrimination laws in the workplace. The conservative-leaning court will decide whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bans sex discrimination, is broad enough to…

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Trump ally blames gay soldiers for military sex assault rise.

Donald Trump’s “religious freedom” commissioner Tony Perkins has blamed gay soldiers for a rise in sexual assault reports in the military. Perkins, who Trump appointed to sit on the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, hit out at gay soldiers…

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Anatomy of a smear: How a fake story about Buttigieg was born.

This is a story about how political operatives tried to take down a presidential candidate, and ended up just humiliating themselves.It’s also a story about how a smear was spread by right-wing websites — and was cleaned up by newsrooms that…