{"id":3001,"date":"2017-05-18T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T13:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=3001"},"modified":"2017-05-11T13:52:46","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T17:52:46","slug":"lgbtqia-politics-roundup-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/3001","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQIA Politics Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/LGBTQIA-Politics-Roundup-051117.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3002\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/LGBTQIA-Politics-Roundup-051117.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"651\" height=\"582\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>By Thomas Maxheimer<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lgbtqnation.com\/2017\/04\/tennessee-just-passed-new-law-meant-undermine-lgbtq-rights\/\">Tennessee just passed a new law meant to undermine LGBTQ rights<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Family Action Council of Tennessee, which advocates for one-man, one-woman marriage, pushed for the law, which states any word undefined in state law must be used according to its ?natural and ordinary meaning.?? While not overtly stated, this is a duplicitous way of encouraging state judges to deny rights to same-sex couples and transgender people. More in-depth coverage <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaystarnews.com\/article\/tennessee-anti-lgbti-legislation\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaystarnews.com\/article\/pastor-who-thinks-gay-men-are-pedophiles-poses-proudly-in-oval-office-with-trump\/\">Pastor who thinks gay men are pedophiles poses proudly in Oval Office with Trump<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is there anyone who is unsure of how the Trump Administration feels about LGBT+ citizens?? This may help you decide.? Hate monger and Pastor of a Dallas mega-church who preaches that gay men are all pedophiles posed with U.S. President Donald Trump inside the Oval Office on May 4<sup>th<\/sup>. ?Robert Jeffress was on hand to attend the signing of the ?religious liberty? executive order.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2017\/05\/texas-adoption-laws\/\">Texas House Passes Bill Legalizing Discrimination Against Prospective LGBTQ Adoptive Parents<\/a><\/p>\n<p>HB 3859 would allow adoption and foster care agencies to discriminate against LGBTQ+ adoptive parents and children in need of a home. ?This bill would also forbid the state from cancelling a state contract with an agency that subjected children to &#8220;conversion therapy.&#8221; ?Clearly the Texas legislature is dead set on repealing LGBT+ citizens? rights because this is the latest in a line of bills repealing their rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Thomas Maxheimer Tennessee just passed a new law meant to undermine LGBTQ rights Family Action Council of Tennessee, which advocates for one-man, one-woman marriage, pushed for the law, which states any word undefined in state law must be used according to its ?natural and ordinary meaning.?? While not overtly stated, this is a duplicitous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-glbt-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}