As far as the US Justice Department is concerned, forcing cities to work with discriminatory religious groups is the American way. President Donald Trump’s Dept. of Justice is telling the U.S. Supreme Court it should allow religious and faith-based adoption agencies...
Civil Rights Office at HHS Moves Closer to Killing Protections for LGBTQ Patients
Run by Christian right activist Roger Severino, the Health And Human Services office has been pushing in this direction for a while now. Roger Severino, a Christian right activist who heads the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services’s Office for Civil Rights, is one...
DOJ Intervenes to Support Lawsuit Filed by Christian Photographer Refusing to Photograph Same-Sex Weddings
A Kentucky wedding photographer has filed a pre-emptive lawsuit to protect herself from the possibility of a hypothetical gay couple trying to hire her for their wedding. And Trump's DOJ is backing her, because of course they are. The U.S. Dept. of Justice...
Anti-Gay ‘Hookers For Jesus’ Group Gets Major DOJ Grant
The Department of Justice gave a grant from their anti-human trafficking program to Hookers For Jesus, which restricts what occupants of their safe houses are allowed to read and labels homosexuality immoral. According to an exclusive report from Reuters, internal...
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Remains Determined To Cut Payday Loan Protections
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau insists that individual states, not the federal government, should regulate payday loans. But here in Virginia, payday loans are very weakly regulated, with no upper limit on interest rates. The Consumer Financial Protection...
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