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Bobby Jindal Says He Supports Louisiana’s Aggressively Anti-Gay ‘Religious...

A "religious liberty" introduced in Louisiana last week is as aggressive and anti-gay as the one that caused nationwide outrage in Indiana last week and Governor Bobby Jindal now says he'll support...

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Louisiana Lesbian Student Wins Battle to Wear Tuxedo to Prom

Resolving a case that received nationwide attention this week, Principal Patrick Taylor of Monroe City High School in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana has agreed to let Claudetteia Love wear a tuxedo to...

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Federal Judge Declines To Lift Injunction Blocking FMLA Benefits For Gay...

An untold number of gay workers in four states remain unable to take unpaid time off to care for their ailing spouses, after a federal judge in Texas declined to lift an injunction Friday.  Last...

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Bobby Jindal Digs His Heels In on Discriminatory Religious Freedom Bill As...

Seemingly unfazed by the backlash Indiana and Arizona faced during their debates over "licenses to discriminate," Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is moving full steam ahead on a "religious freedom" bill,...

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Bobby Jindal Has a Message for Businesses Concerned With Louisiana’s Anti-gay...

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is taking the hard-line stance on LGBT rights in a NYT op-ed on why he's holding firm against gay marriage and will continue to push for a bill in his state that will...

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HRC Warns 12 States ‘Don’t Repeat The Mistakes Of Indiana’ In New Media Campaign

The Human Rights Coalition launched a new ad campaign asking 12 state governors to reject bills that target LGBT people like the one Gov. Mike Pence passed in Indiana. HRC's new campaign comes after a...

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HRC Corrects Bobby Jindal’s Anti-Gay NYT Op-Ed in Red Pen

As Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal digs in his heels in support of the Marriage and Conscience Act (an Indiana-esque "license to discriminate" bill), the blowback continues to roll in. In response to...

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Louisiana House Unanimously Adopts Resolution Urging Ginsburg and Kagan to...

The Louisiana House of Representatives unanimously adopted a resolution urging Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan to recuse themselves from the marriage cases pending before the U.S. Supreme...

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Bobby Jindal Defiant After Louisiana House Panel Kills Anti-Gay ‘Religious...

A Louisiana House Committee today voted down HB 707, an anti-gay 'religious freedom bill' favored by Republican Governor Bobby Jindal. In the wake of its defeat, Jindal remained defiant, vowing to...

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Bobby Jindal Bypasses Louisiana Legislature, Issues Anti-Gay ‘Religious...

Making good on his promise declared just hours ago, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has issued an executive order intended to protect the "religious liberty" of objectors to same-sex marriage in the...

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New Orleans Mayor Blasts Bobby Jindal’s Anti-gay Crusade, Issues Counter...

In the wake of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's decision yesterday to bypass the state legislature and issue a controversial executive order protecting religious-based objection to same-sex marriage, New...

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Louisiana Sen. Karen Carter Peterson Eviscerates Bobby Jindal’s Anti-gay...

Karen Carter Peterson, a Louisiana state senator who represents the New Orleans area, took to the senate floor ahead of Gov. Bobby Jindal's "religious freedom" executive order earlier this week to set...

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Louisiana Tourism Industry At Odds With Bobby Jindal Over Religious Freedom Bill

The New Orleans Tourism Marketing Corporation and the New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau (NOCVB) have drawn a line in the sand following Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal’s decision to sign into...

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Robbie Kaplan Argues for the Freedom to Marry at 5th Circuit Today: What To...

BY ARI EZRA WALDMAN Roberta Kaplan, the Paul Weiss attorney who was Edie Windsor's attorney, is in New Orleans to argue for marriage equality at the Fifth Circuit. The cases on appeal come from Texas,...

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Republican Attorneys General In Louisiana, Texas Vow To Continue Defending...

  Republican attorneys general in Louisiana and Texas say they plan to keep fighting even if the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals stirkes down bans on same-sex marriage in the two states.  As we've...

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Bobby Jindal Kicks Off Potential 2016 Presidential Run With Anti-gay Hate...

(twitter) On Saturday, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal headlined an all-day prayer rally at Louisiana State University in an effort to drum up evangelical support for a potential 2016 bid for the White...

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Louisiana Supreme Court Urged to Rule in Gay Marriage Case Ahead of SCOTUS...

Back in September, a district judge in Louisiana ruled the state's ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional. Now, lawyers on both sides of the case are urging the Louisiana Supreme Court to weigh in...

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Bobby Jindal Says Constitutional Amendment the Answer if SCOTUS Defies States...

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal told CNN's New Day that he's not changing his opinion ('like Obama did') on marriage based on polls: "I'm not one of those politicians…My faith teaches me that marriage...

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Baton Rouge Police Chief Apologizes for Unconstitutional Sodomy Arrest...

The Baton Rouge Police Department has once again found itself in the news for its enforcement of the state's unconstitutional anti-sodomy law, state paper The Advocate reports: Baton Rouge Police Chief...

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Louisiana High School Bans Lesbian Student From Wearing Tuxedo To Prom

A Louisiana high school banned one of its premier gay honor students from wearing a tuxedo to prom, claiming that she would violate dress code reports USA Today. Monroe High School Senior Claudetteia...

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