#religiousexemptions

[lanreobey]

...and so it begins.😊 . . . . . . . . . . 🗣Sue every corporation!!! . . . . . #onebilliondollars #27thletters #27thletterspodcast #religiousexemptions https://www.instagram.com/p/CgxzSV-Md4r/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[feministstruggle]

U.S. Supreme Court Guts Women's Rights

As soon as we were half-hopeful that despite our concerns about where the “transgender status” part of the Bostock decision might lead us, that at least lesbians might have gained some protection against discrimination, the situation quickly went downhill. The US Supreme Court issued two more decisions, voting to create religious exemptions the size of a Mack Truck into civil rights laws and went on to deny millions of women access to free birth control under the Affordable Care Act. (Don’t worry, Viagra is still available.) Again, the employer’s “religious freedom” has turned female workers into wholly-owned subsidiaries of their employers, with the right to pry into their bedrooms and control what happens to their bodies. Dar Guerra, rad fem lawyer, writer and theoretician, puts this together brilliantly with her gallows humor in her latest blog piece. Please take a look: Time to organize sisters! Read the full article

[artlightstheway]

27,000 #children held #religiousexemptions in New York, 0.015% of the entire population in the state. These children were suddenly thrust into a state of limbo as their lives had become the talk of #discrimination and #segregation in an instance. (at New York City, N.Y.) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCdr1M6nB_c/?igshid=1c85lehq707y8

[lgbtmap]

Tipping the Scales: The Coordinated Attack on LGBT People, Women, Parents, Children, and Health Care analyzes the mounting legislation and litigation across the country orchestrated to undermine nondiscrimination protections, comprehensive health care, and the regulations administering social and public services by inserting exemptions into the laws based on religious or moral beliefs.

The freedom of religion is one of our nation’s core values, that’s why it’s already protected by the US Constitution. A new report MAP outlines the disturbing shift across the country towards passing religious exemption laws that give business, service and healthcare providers, government workers and individuals a license to discriminate against others by citing religious beliefs. 

Read more: http://www.lgbtmap.org/religious-exemptions-license-to-discriminate