Gay unselor's firg at Indiana Catholic school OK'd by urt

Contents:

• HOW GAY RIGHTS WON INDIANA
• GAY RIGHTS AND THE FREEDOM TO BUY
• GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
• INDIANA GAY RIGHTS BILL IS AD: 'WE TOOK A BEATG OM ALL SIS'
• MIKE PENCE ARGUED HOMOSEXUALY WAS ‘A CHOICE’ OR ‘LEARNED BEHAVR’ DURG 1990S FIGHT AGAST GAY RIGHTS ORDANCE
• FACT CHECK: DID A GAY RIGHTS BILL BACKED BY INDIANA STATE SENATE LEAR DAVID LONG CLU RELIG EEDOM PROTECTNS?
• THE DEBATE OVER “DECENCY:” HOW HOOSIERS CHALLENGED ANA BRYANT’S ANTI-GAY RIGHTS CSA

HOW GAY RIGHTS WON INDIANA

Clayton County, Geia, which gay men were fired bee of their sexual orientatn, and R. Clayton County— which held that “an employer who fir an dividual merely for beg gay or transgenr vlat Tle VII. Opposn of religly based refals to serve gay and lbian people?

Support of homosexualy by US state? HistoryHomosexual activy Indiana?

Homosexual activy Indiana is legal. Current statSce Sep 20, 2011Legal Don't Ask, Don't Tell is officially repealed throughout the Uned Stat, and gays and lbians may openly donatns by MSMs Indiana? Mike Pence approved chang by lawmakers to a ntroversial state law on relig eedom Thursday, sentially ncedg feat to a ncerted alliance of liberal tert groups and large rporatns over gay rights.

GAY RIGHTS AND THE FREEDOM TO BUY

The new versn of the law clarifi that will not allow bs to discrimate agast gay Hoosiers, a fix that Republin backers and Pence had once argued was not necsary. But gay rights groups pot out that the chang only stop discrimatn that might have happened as a rult of the relig eedom law. No Indiana state law explicly bars bs om discrimatg agast gay ctomers.

Still, the quick turnaround on the law a Republin-led red state showed a sea change on how gay rights fights play out. ” Opposn Tak Root The Relig Freedom Rtoratn Act was nceived last year by nservative Indiana lawmakers who sought a bulwark the culture war over gay rights.

GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT

Lambda Legal, the natnal gay rights group, got a tip om a iendly legislator the Indiana Hoe that a bill was the works and alerted iendly groups and bs.

“The bill has been brewg sce gay marriage bee legal October, ” says Jim Bent, Midwt director for Lambda Legal. Apple’s openly gay CEO Tim Cook, whom civil rights groups had been privately urtg as a key civil rights ally, tweeted his opposn.

Human Rights Watch works for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr peopl' rights, and wh activists reprentg a multiplicy of inti and issu. We have succsfully advoted for the right of Indiana Youth Group to prt IYG license plat, ensured that Gay Straight Allianc n be schools, protected the basic human rights of transgenr prisoners, and 2014 we proved the urts that nyg same-sex upl the right to marry was unnstutnal. Gay weddgs need gay weddg k.

INDIANA GAY RIGHTS BILL IS AD: 'WE TOOK A BEATG OM ALL SIS'

But if Christian terers n legally refe service to gay upl, on the basis that homosexualy is a s, are the victori of the LGBTQ movement jeopardy? Might Ameri be head toward Jim Crow–style discrimatn agast gay people? “A clash of ke and fah, ” claims the New York Tim, has pted evangelil Christian nfectners agast the gay upl requirg terg servic.

The NCAA has reassured that protects s gay athlet (even if won’t pay them). They n stand up for gay rights. To the gay rights movement, rporatns say: let them eat ke (gay ke is our specialty).

WASHINGTON – A feral appeals urt has led that a Catholic high school Indianapolis was ee to fire a gay guidance unselor bee she performed at least some relig duti, the latt legal setback for LGBTQ+ rights when they nflict wh Fzgerald had worked for 14 years as a guidance unselor at Ronlli High School when school officials disvered she was married to another woman. Yet bullyg and harassment of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) young people  Indiana is a real problem – and Indiana hasn’t taken meangful steps to addrs . Even though her school had a gay-straight alliance, she didn’t jo bee she feared the repercsns of g out at school.

MIKE PENCE ARGUED HOMOSEXUALY WAS ‘A CHOICE’ OR ‘LEARNED BEHAVR’ DURG 1990S FIGHT AGAST GAY RIGHTS ORDANCE

Indiana Republin lawmakers abandoned efforts to strengthen protectns for lbian, gay and bi-sexual people on Tuday, optg not to vote on a measure signed to rtore the state's reputatn followg a natnal boytt over a relig objectns law last year. Travis Holdman, who had sponsored the gay rights bill, said on Tuday that he was "greatly disappoted" but realized there wasn't enough support for to pass. He said efforts to pass a gay rights bill were ad for this legislative year.

"The Indiana Chamber of Commerce warned that the failure to act leav bs the state at a disadvantage petg for talented backlash last year over the relig objectns law may have ntributed to the loss of a dozen nventns stg Indiana some $60 ln, the tourism group Vis Indy said a report last gay-rights group Freedom Indiana said was disappoted that Republins cid not to take a vote on the issue.

Vice Print Mike Pence once argued that homosexualy was a choice durg his fight the early 1990s agast lol efforts Indiana to ban discrimatn based on sexual orientatn. Pence’s opposn to LGBT equaly has long drawn the srn of gay rights activists and ma him a champn of the Relig Right. But scty of Pence’s rerd on LGBT issu tensified recently when Whe Hoe Deputy prs secretary Judd Deere suggted last week a tweet that the vice print wasn’t anti-gay bee he was havg lunch wh the Irish prime mister, who is gay, and his partner durg a state vis.

FACT CHECK: DID A GAY RIGHTS BILL BACKED BY INDIANA STATE SENATE LEAR DAVID LONG CLU RELIG EEDOM PROTECTNS?

The ltle-explored episo the 1990s, unearthed lol newspaper clippgs durg a eper KFile review of Pence’s rerd on LGBT issu, highlights an early wdow to the now-vice print’s public activism and views opposn of gay rights.

Pence argued the 1990s that, unlike protectns for Ain Amerins, homosexuals choose or learn to be gay and was part of a “grassroots-generated movement for regnn of homosexual rights” natnwi. “Once you intify homosexuals as a mory, then by fn they would need to be afford nstutnal protectn, ” Pence add.

THE DEBATE OVER “DECENCY:” HOW HOOSIERS CHALLENGED ANA BRYANT’S ANTI-GAY RIGHTS CSA

I do not choose whether I am a black Amerin … the great vast majory of the psychologil muny says homosexualy at a very mimum is a choice by the dividual, and at the maximum, is a learned behavr. The Amerin Psychologil Associatn said 1992 that data did not support the view that homosexualy was a choice and studi at the time the 1990s suggted homosexualy was blogil and geic.

The arguments ma the 1990s by Pence would echo those he later emphasized when he ran for Congrs 2000 when his platform protted extendg civil rights protectns to gay Amerins. But the 1990s ments show for the first time Pence llg homosexualy a choice and offer a clearer view to Pence’s view on gay Amerins at the time.

Dignatg gay Amerins worthy of such protectns unr the law, Pence said, would open “a Pandora’s Box of legal rights and legal difficulti” and was part of grassroots movements by gay activists for creasg their rights. In September 1992, Lafayette, Indiana, first proposed addg homosexualy to s non-discrimatn ordance.