In July, 2014, President Obama issued Executive Order 13672 prohibiting sexual orientation and gender identity job discrimination in federal contracting. In April, 2015, regulations implementing…
The federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is requesting public comment on proposed regulations clarifying and expanding the ban on sex discrimination in…
Today, September 10th, a wide range of religious leaders wrote to President Obama, asking him to maintain his administration’s commitment to the Religious Freedom Restoration…
Various progressive civil rights, religious, LGBT, and union organizations have asked President Obama to agree with them that religious hiring by religious organizations is discrimination…
Stanley Carlson-Thies The Equality Act, introduced into the House and the Senate in late July, 2015, is intended to comprehensively prohibit under federal law, discrimination…
Chelsea Langston The First Amendment Defense Act has the laudable aim of enabling people and organizations to be true to their belief in traditional marriage…
Stanley Carlson-Thies Revisions proposed to the Equal Treatment regulations in nine federal departments retain strong protections for the religious identity of faith-based organizations that receive…
by Stanley Carlson-Thies The bill addresses a serious problem: many foster kids and other children needing a new permanent home languish without one. But applying…
Stanley Carlson-Thies The Equality Act was proposed in Congress on July 23, 2015. Its goal is to eradicate discrimination on the bases of sex, sexual…
Chelsea Langston In late July, 2015, the North Carolina Supreme Court upheld the state’s school voucher program. Just a month earlier, the Colorado Supreme Court…