A gay-to-straight “conversion therapy” provider found by a New Jersey jury to have violated the state’s consumer fraud protections will permanently cease operations and dissolve its corporate entity as part of a settlement that precludes an appeal of a jury’s verdict in the landmark lawsuit.
Transgender students thrive when school restroom policies respect their gender identity.
Justice Tom Parker derided federal judiciary and suggested that Alabama should defy the U.S. Supreme Court’s marriage equality decision.
The company has agreed to implement a new policy prohibiting such discrimination.
Diamond was denied medically necessary treatment and repeatedly assaulted during more than three years in male prisons.
Because the state of Alabama refused to recognize Paul Hard’s marriage, he was previously unable to receive monetary proceeds from a wrongful death suit after his husband was killed.
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore continues to “flout and violate” the state’s code of judicial ethics.
Religious beliefs do not give Alabama probate judges license to pick and choose among the various functions their office is authorized to perform, including same-sex marriages. If they feel that there is a conflict between their responsibilities and their conscience, the solution is simple –they should resign. It's the only honorable thing to do.
We hope this ruling will help propel greater acceptance of the LGBT community – because we still have a lot of work to do, particularly in the Deep South, where old attitudes are most slow to change.
The justice, already facing an SPLC ethics complaint, claims in an unrelated opinion issued today that he is not bound by decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court.
