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The shady network of attorneys fighting against LGBT rights.

Extreme anti-LGBTQ group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is stunningly opaque about its large network of affiliated lawyers, what positions of influence they hold, and what beliefs they must agree to in order to be officially tied to the group…

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Buttigieg’s asset: ‘Do I have a great husband or what?’

The star of presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg’s campaign rally the other night in San Francisco was obviously the mayor who has vaulted into the national conversation about who will be the Democratic nominee. But his husband, Chasten Buttigieg, is becoming…

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Trump’s ‘conscience rule’ is a perversion of religious freedom.

For decades, U.S. religious right groups have portrayed equal rights for LGBT people as a threat to religious freedom. During the 1996 Congressional debate on the Defense of Marriage Act, Concerned Women for America falsely claimed that if same-sex marriages were…

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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…