Under Trump, the US State Department prohibited children born outside the United States from gaining US citizenship unless they were biologically related to both parents, a policy that targeted LGBTQ families almost exclusively. Last week, Biden's State Dept. ended...
Pompeo hopes to redefine the entire concept of "human rights," and to do so he's hired a woman with a decades-long record of anti-LGBTQ activism. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday announced the formation of a new commission that will take a "fresh look" at...
The U.S. State Dept. on Thursday quietly published a notice in the Federal Registerannouncing it creating a new commission to provide "fresh thinking" about "natural law and natural rights," which is the religious right's code for anti-LGBTQ. The "Commission on...
Last week, we reported on a legally-married same-sex couple who are in court – again. After having won their case months ago, the federal government appealed. They are battling the U.S. State Dept., which is insisting one of their twin boys is not a U.S. citizen, even...
The State Department is attempting to block citizenship for the child of a same-sex couple, on a basis that would never be used against a different-sex couple. It's discrimination, and a Federal Judge has said as much. The U.S. State Dept. lost a federal court ruling...