Author: Shawn Weston

Rep. Eric Johnson’s employment nondiscrimination bill passed out of committee this week. That doesn’t guarantee a hearing and vote on the House floor. Where the bill is placed on the agenda is up to the Calendars Committee.

With a vote of 87-0, the Alabama House of Representatives voted to allow “religious” adoption agencies to refuse to place homeless children with LGBT parents. Four representatives abstained, including Rep. Patricia Todd, who is lesbian.

State Rep. Jason Villalba has voted with Democrats on the House Committee on Business and Industry...

Lambda Legal has joined a lawsuit against a Picayune, Miss., funeral home for refusing to provide any service for Robert Huskey after his death, leaving his 82-year-old husband, Jack Zawadski, desperate to make other arrangements in the hours after his spouse’s death.

Days after it was determined that Balch Springs officer Roy Oliver shot into a car as it was moving away from him and killed 15-year-old Jordan Edwards, Oliver has been fired but not arrested for murder.