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At their last meeting the Chesterfield School Board approved a resolution recognizing June as LGBTQ+ month. It comes as several states have passed laws banning transgender athletes from girls' sports and as the Virginia Department of Education is being sued over guidelines to protect transgender students.
ACLU joins sixth grader in saying online-only Wisconsin school should allow students to form LGBTQ club Rory Linnane, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel © Submitted by Brianna Prahl Wren Prahl, a sixth grader at iForward, is trying to start a club for LGBTQ+ students. When sixth grader Wren Prahl got the list of clubs for their new school last fall, they poured over the list and carefully narrowed it down. They chose the pet club, baking club, art club and Dungeons and Dragons — all of which happen virtually as part of the online-only school, iForward. The clubs are a way fo...
The Rev. Bright Appiagypi-Podkye celebrates Sunday Mass, albeit with audio provided by cellphone as parishioners remain in their cars in the parking lot of the Parish of Saint Agnes Cathedral on May 31 in Rockville Centre, New York. (Photo: Bruce Bennett/Getty Images) “Religious Liberty in Crisis: Exercising Your Faith in an Age of Uncertainty” is the provocative title of a new book by former U.S. Solicitor General Ken Starr. Starr joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to explain why he thinks religious liberty is in crisis and what the biggest threats posed to religious liberty are. He al...
Reply A Harrison High School student has started a conservative club. (Google Maps) HARRISON, NY — Harrison High School now has a local chapter of Young Americans For Freedom, and the national organization is celebrating. Luke Wong, now a junior, spent two years trying to get a club started, working with YAF and the national Alliance Defending Freedom. YAF officials said ADF lawyers sent a letter to school board President Kelly Mangan in June saying "Harrison High's failure to recognize YAF is blatantly illegal under the Equal Access Act and First Amendment, both of which guarantee YAF's r...
Improving the Lives and Rights of LGBTQ People in America A Road Map for the Biden Administration Getty/Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle LGBTQ rights supporters gather during a candlelight vigil in West Reading, Pennsylvania, on September 14, 2020. Adam Peck Introduction and summary The Trump administration spent the majority of its four years in office launching a barrage of attacks infringing on the rights of LGBTQ people, promoting discriminatory policies, and creating barriers to access critical government services. These actions reflect the Trump administration’s blatant disr...