GENEVA (21 June 2023) – Many relig or belief tradns are clive and affirmg of lbian, gay, bisexual, trans and genr-diverse (LGBT) persons, a UN expert told the Human Rights Council today.
Contents:
- RELIG EEDOM PROTECTNS ADD TO SENATE GAY MARRIAGE BILL DON'T GO FAR ENOUGH, ADVOT WARN
- RELIG LIBERTY AND THE GAY-EQUALY MOVEMENT
- TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
RELIG EEDOM PROTECTNS ADD TO SENATE GAY MARRIAGE BILL DON'T GO FAR ENOUGH, ADVOT WARN
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Tyler Deaton of the Amerin Uny Fund, who intifi as a gay nservative, tri to DEATON: We have to have laws on the books that n make explic when we're protected and when we're not.
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RELIG LIBERTY AND THE GAY-EQUALY MOVEMENT
McLennan County Jtice of the Peace Dianne Hensley filed a lawsu after a state agency warned her about refg to marry gay upl. She hop a recent U.S. Supreme Court se about relig eedom helps her e. * religious liberty gay *
A bakery wh fewer than 14 employe uld refe, on the basis of relig beliefs, to sign a ctom weddg ke for a gay uple. But a bakery wh 15 or more employe uld not turn a gay uple away.
TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
This year, the jtic approved taxpayer support for relig tn some circumstanc and let relig employers sistep job discrimatn laws and health surance verage for urt refed to let employers discrimate agast LGBTQ workers a 6-3 lg June, but even then Associate Jtice Neil Gorsuch reerated the jtic' rpect for relig Court grants feral job protectns to gay, lbian, transgenr workers"We are also eply ncerned wh prervg the promise of the ee exercise of relign enshred our Constutn, " he wrote. More:Supreme Court to ci if foster re agenci n snub gay, lbian upl due to relig objectnsThe foster re agency sued, but two lower feral urts refed to block the cy's actn.
Advot for foster children also note that a large number of children needg foster re are gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenr, makg illogil to exclu LGBTQ upl om the program. "Welch, who grew up a nservative, Christian home, said the foster re system also needs fai which gay, lbian or transgenr children would be wele. Democrats claimed her associatn wh groups that fight for relig exemptns om anti-discrimatn laws reprents a risk for gay Coney Barrett was tstee at private school wh anti-gay policiFor her part, Barrett scribed her fah as important, but irrelevant to her jurispnce.
One such se that uld be heard volv Christian baker Jack Phillips, who won a Supreme Court se 2018 for refg to make a ke for a gay uple. " He reced the words of former Print Barack Obama's ments followg the Supreme Court's 2015 gay marriage lg.