Tag: LGBT Issues

Cruz hit Trump for his opposition to the new North Carolina law on transgendered persons. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

Cruz: Trump’s transgender take is ‘political correctness on steroids’

Curt Mills · April 23, 2016 4:15 pm

Gohmert said the movement for transgender people use their bathroom of choice is bringing the country down. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Louie Gohmert: LGBTQ bathroom fight is PC ‘insanity’

Pete Kasperowicz · April 21, 2016 5:46 pm

Palin defended his criticism of transgender people in Facebook post. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

Palin: ESPN ‘screw up’ to fire Curt Schilling over transgender remarks

Becket Adams · April 21, 2016 3:00 pm

Trump slams N.C. bathroom law, says state should ‘leave it the way it is’

Trump slams N.C. bathroom law, says state should ‘leave it the way it is’

Ryan Lovelace · April 21, 2016 12:52 pm

ESPN announced Wednesday evening the firing of analyst and retired baseball player Curt Schilling. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

ESPN calls strike three on Curt Schilling over transgender meme

Daniel Chaitin · April 21, 2016 5:03 am

Pearl Jam latest band to bash N.C. over anti-transgender law

Pearl Jam latest band to bash N.C. over anti-transgender law

Joshua Axelrod · April 19, 2016 10:31 pm

According to the Charlotte Observer, North Carolina added $220 million to its economy in 2011 off projects filming within its borders. Even if that number has doubled, maybe tripled in recent years, that would be a drop in compared to North Carolina's GDP in 2014 was $481.9 billion, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. (AP Photo/Jerry Wolford, News & Record)

Hollywood can’t pressure states into repealing controversial laws

Joshua Axelrod · April 19, 2016 4:01 am

The bill is similar to the controversial one signed into law in North Carolina last month that has drawn criticism from around the country. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

Tennessee lawmaker delays transgender bathroom bill

Kelly Cohen · April 19, 2016 12:35 am

A thoughtful approach to the ‘transgender bathrooms’ controversy

A thoughtful approach to the ‘transgender bathrooms’ controversy

Washington Examiner · April 18, 2016 4:03 am

Neither the North Carolina law nor the Mississippi law places new burdens on anyone or deprives them of rights they enjoyed hitherto. Rather, each merely preserves a status quo to which opponents have principled objections. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

Freedom for me but not for thee

Washington Examiner · April 18, 2016 4:02 am

"What I'd like to say is, just relax," Kasich said on CNN. "If you don't like what somebody's doing, pray for them, and if you feel as though somebody is doing something wrong against you, can you just for a second get over it? You know?" (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Kasich tells supporters of religious freedom laws: ‘Get over it’

Pete Kasperowicz · April 17, 2016 2:10 pm

Silver said moving the All-Star game out of Charlotte was not brought up at the last owners' meetings. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

NBA commissioner: No plans to move All-Star Game out of N.C.

Joshua Axelrod · April 15, 2016 9:02 pm