LGBTQ

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); A federal judge has just overturned ObamaCare protections for transgender patients, which required doctors and hospitals to provide “medically necessary” services to transgender individuals, ruling that the 2016 policy violates the religious freedoms of Christian providers. Judge Reed O’Connor in the Northern District of Texas ruled that the 2016 policy, which also prohibited providers and insurers who receive federal money from denying treatment or coverage to anyone based on sex, gender identity or termination of pregnancy, violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. O’Connor stood by his...

A U.S. District Court judge in Texas has overturned the protections written into ObamaCare for transgender people, ruling they violate the religious rights of healthcare providers who hold religious beliefs that oppose the existence of transgender people. On Tuesday Judge Reed O’Connor, appointed by President George W. Bush, “vacated an Obama-era regulation that prohibited providers and insurers who receive federal money from denying treatment or coverage to anyone based on sex, gender identity or termination of pregnancy,” The Hill reports. That regulation also mandated healthcare providers perform medically necessary services...

“Any freedom that we honor in this country has limits when it comes to harming other people.” Pete Buttigieg has the definitive answer to those who think their religious liberty takes priority over equality for LGBTQ people in America. Buttigieg, one of nine top Democratic presidential candidates to participate in Thursday evening’s HRC Equality Town Hall on CNN, was asked if he thinks people should be able to deny service to LGBTQ people based on so-called religious liberty. Or, as business owner and audience member Andrew Beaudoin asked, “As a Christian, can...

Franklin Graham once again is attacking the LGBTQ community. The Christian evangelical minister who is closely tied to President Donald Trump took to Facebook this week to blame gay people for a nationwide rise in the rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). “God made us male and female and gave sex for us to enjoy inside a marriage relationship between a man and a woman—not two men, not two women. The Bible says that anyone who sins sexually, sins against their own body. How true,” Graham wrote. He points to...

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); A Colorado pastor apologized to parishioners and asked God to “cleanse” the church after a gay man spoke during an event about rural philanthropy. Pastor Greg Schaffer of Gateway Church told congregants that he was not aware that one of the speakers would be Justin Garoutte, a research associate for the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE) who is working on a study to help understand and reduce LGBTQ suicides among adolescents, according to Patheos. Garoutte shared his coming out story during his presentation...