{"id":3307,"date":"2017-09-28T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=3307"},"modified":"2017-09-28T08:48:14","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T12:48:14","slug":"lgbtqia-politics-roundup-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/3307","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQIA Politics Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium_large wp-image-3308\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/LGBTQIA-Politics-Roundup-092817-768x648.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/LGBTQIA-Politics-Roundup-092817-768x648.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/LGBTQIA-Politics-Roundup-092817-300x253.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/LGBTQIA-Politics-Roundup-092817-450x380.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/LGBTQIA-Politics-Roundup-092817-850x718.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/LGBTQIA-Politics-Roundup-092817-592x500.jpg 592w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/LGBTQIA-Politics-Roundup-092817.jpg 874w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>By Brian Hulsey<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonblade.com\/2017\/09\/27\/roy-moore-vocal-opponent-of-lgbt-rights-scores-major-win-in-alabama\/\">Roy Moore, vocal opponent of LGBT rights, wins Alabama race<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Roy Moore, a former Alabama Supreme Court chief justice who was removed from the bench for calling on the state to ignore the U.S. Supreme Court ruling for same-sex marriage, won the Republican primary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2017\/09\/18\/michigan-civil-rights-commission-declines-reinterpret-civil-rights-law-include-lgbt\/677172001\/\">Michigan Civil Rights Commission declines to reinterpret civil rights law to include LGBT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Michigan Civil Rights Commission on Monday declined a request to reinterpret the Elliott Larsen Civil Rights Act to include protections for the LGBT community.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/politics\/wp\/2017\/09\/25\/a-trump-judicial-pick-said-transgender-children-are-proof-that-satans-plan-is-working\/?utm_term=.88eafeecd506\">A Trump judicial pick said transgender children are proof that ?Satan?s plan is working?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Before Jeff Mateer became President Trump?s nominee for federal judgeship in Texas, he fought a local ordinance extending equal protections to members of the LGBT community and said the separation of church and state does not exist in the Constitution.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Brian Hulsey Roy Moore, vocal opponent of LGBT rights, wins Alabama race &#8220;Roy Moore, a former Alabama Supreme Court chief justice who was removed from the bench for calling on the state to ignore the U.S. Supreme Court ruling for same-sex marriage, won the Republican primary.&#8221; Michigan Civil Rights Commission declines to reinterpret civil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":3308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glbt-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307","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=3307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}