The largest LGBT advocacy organization in the country has a diversity problem, according to a report on the work environment at the Human Rights Campaign (HRC).
It has been roughly one year since celebrities like Elton John, Jay Leno, and Ellen DeGeneres initiated a boycott against the posh Beverly Hills Hotel, once a popular hotspot in the bustling, star-filled heart of Hollywood.
The Texas Senate passed a bill on Tuesday which would protect the rights of certain religious organizations and pastors to refuse participation in marriage ceremonies which violate their sincerely-held religious beliefs. The Governor said he will sign a bill that offers such protection to pastors and ministers.
Despite the intervention of the powerful LGBT Human Rights Campaign and donations from at least one billionaire, an LGBT nondiscrimination ordinance passed in October by the City Council of Springfield, MO, has fallen at the hands of Springfield voters.
An American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) attorney said Friday that Louisiana’s proposed religious liberty bill could allow husbands to hit their wives and would “dismantle the Louisiana legal system.” As reported at Nola.com, ACLU attorney Marjorie Esman said regarding husbands,
Pamela Geller’s American Freedom Defense Initiative has launched another volley of banners around San Francisco targeting Islamists, this time showing a photo of a meeting between Adolf Hitler and Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Muft of Jerusalem who in 1941
