Tag Archives: adoption
GOP Day 2: Speaker attacks, Trump reaches out
The Trump campaign has begun formalizing its outreach to the LGBT community, but one speaker on the convention stage Tuesday night said the president would be a "fierce advocate" on the adoption and locker room controversies.
HHS reverses ‘critical protections’ in health care
The Trump administration announced November 1 that it will immediately stop enforcing non-discrimination protections for LGBT people in health care and seek a change in regulations to formalize that policy.
HHS seeks broad authority to discriminate in foster care
President Trump's expressed support for allowing groups to use their religious beliefs as a reason to discriminate is now being written into budget proposals for the next fiscal year.
Supreme Court orders Alabama courts to honor Georgia adoption
“It is extraordinary to have a per curiam opinion with no dissents treating [the same-sex couple case] as the pretty straight-forward kind of [adoption] case it should be treated as,” said family law expert Nancy Polikoff. “It is terrific….It’s a
Speed Read: Strange travel companions
Illinois' new marriage equality law went into effect officially Sunday, though more than 1,600 same-sex couples had already been married since February. And Equality Maryland is breathing easier since an anti-LGBT group failed to turn in enough signatures Saturday night
Gallup Polls show significant gains for LGBT community in public support
More than any other controversial issue involving ideas of morality, "gay and lesbian relations" has seen the most dramatic improvement in terms of the public's acceptance. Three recent Gallup Polls show significant gains for the LGBT community when it comes
Speed Read: Idaho up, Kansas down
The Idaho Supreme Court on Monday ruled that a magistrate judge violated the constitutional rights of a lesbian when the judge dismissed the woman's petition to adopt the children of her female spouse because the couple’s marriage was not recognized
Gingrich would cut funding over adoption issue
Newt Gingrich, the current Republican presidential frontrunner, used a right-wing Christian forum Saturday afternoon to claim “the left” is trying to “drive out the existence of traditional religions…and use the government to repress the American people against their own values.”
Supreme Court refuses couple’s plea
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday (October 11) refused to hear a case that challenged a sort of “back door discrimination” against a gay couple by a Louisiana state official.
