The report details the increased risks LGBT older adults face as a result of recent religious exemption laws and policies.

Ashe McGovern, Legislative and Policy Director of Columbia Law School’s Law, Rights, and Religion Project testified before the New York City Council Committee on Women’s Issues on a bill that would require several city agencies to undergo training on “implicit bias, discrimination, cultural competency and structural inequity, including with respect to gender, race and sexual orientation.”

The Washington Supreme Court has issued a significant and unanimous decision in the ongoing dispute—being litigated in courts across the country—over whether antidiscrimination law must yield to the religious beliefs of business owners opposed to marriage equality. LRRP Director Liz Platt writes for Religion Dispatches on the implications of this decision.

This resource addresses the way the Trump Administration and the rhetoric of "Religious Liberty" engaged by Trump during his campaign may impact the relationship between the Church and the State during Trump's Presidency.

This report shows how recent legislative efforts to expand religious liberty rights, such as the First Amendment Defense Act (FADA), allow religious objectors to violate laws that protect against pregnancy, familial status, and marital status discrimination.