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New Report: Religious Accommodation Cannot Come at the Expense of Others' Rights

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New Report: Religious Accommodation Cannot Come at the Expense of Others' Rights

The Leadership Conference Education Fund has released its report, Striking a Balance: Advancing Civil and Human Rights While Preserving Religious Liberty, documenting the use of religious arguments to oppose the abolition of slavery, women’s suffrage and equality, racial integration, inter-racial marriage, immigration, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the right to collectively bargain. Striking a Balance also examines the current legal and political landscape in which religious exemptions are being used to deny civil and human rights, including LGBT equality.

Civil Rights Advocates to Address Discriminatory Religious Exemption Bills

Civil Rights Advocates to Address Discriminatory Religious Exemption Bills

Join us for a conversation: How do we preserve both religious liberty and the constitutional principle of equal protection under the law? This event will be live streamed.

LGBT Institute featured on "A Closer Look"

LGBT Institute featured on "A Closer Look"

Today, LGBT Institute Executive Director, Ryan Roemerman, sat down with Rose Scott and Martha Dalton to discuss the LGBT Institute as part of a special Martin Luther King Jr. Day edition in partnership with the National Center for Civil and Human Rights.

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Global-Local Connection for LGBT Rights event stirs up conversation

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Global-Local Connection for LGBT Rights event stirs up conversation

The evening’s conversation covered an array of topics, including but not limited to anti-LGBT laws across the world, bullying, the school-to-prison pipeline, Black Lives Matter, Trans Lives Matter, the role of social media in activism, HIV/AIDS and LGBT elders.

Photo Credit: Patrick Saunders

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LGBT Institute to Host National Leaders, Develop Research Agenda

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LGBT Institute to Host National Leaders, Develop Research Agenda

“Our LGBT community, at home and abroad, is facing a pivotal moment. Despite recent legal gains, there is still much work to be done. The LGBT Institute provides a unique opportunity for us to be bold and layout an agenda that seeks to provide voice for those most often marginalized within the LGBT community."

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LGBT Institute officially launches at Center for Civil and Human Rights

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LGBT Institute officially launches at Center for Civil and Human Rights

"It's the perfect time and the perfect place to shine a spotlight on issues that don't often get a platform."

Atlanta’s National Center for Civil and Human Rights to open LGBT Institute

Atlanta’s National Center for Civil and Human Rights to open LGBT Institute

"One important aspect of the Institute is that it will be housed inside the Center for Civil and Human Right, an organizational reason not without symbolism. It fights back against the notion that LGBT rights aren’t civil rights."