A Rare Loss In Arizona for Herrod
Cathi Herrod heads the Focus On the Family-affiated Center for Arizona Policy (CAP), and she’s become quite accustomed to having her entire legislative agenda breeze through the legislature year after...
View ArticleIs Arizona a Turning Point?
It would appear that the outcry over Arizona’s license-to-discriminate bill that was finally vetoed by Gov. Jan Brewer last night may have reached something of a high water mark. Major companies,...
View ArticleFournier compares Arizona bill to segregation
Ron Fournier, a conservative writer, made some interesting comparisons between the (now vetoed) Arizona bill to legalize discrimination against gay people and the efforts to keep segregated schools in...
View ArticleFormerly vocal anti-gay GOP leaders now moving on
The New York Times interviewed some leading Republican politicians about the now vetoed anti-gay pro-discrimination bill in Arizona and found nearly all speaking the language of conciliation: More than...
View ArticleFormer Arizona AG op-ed in support of equality
Grant Woods, a Republican, was the Attorney General of Arizona from 1991 through 1999. Today he shares his views with the Arizona Republic: I had the honor of serving as Arizona’s attorney general from...
View ArticleTempe Voters Approve Charter Change Banning LGBT Discrimination
A number of cities in Arizona have anti-discrimination ordinances to protect LGB and sometimes T’s from discrimination in hiring, housing and public accomodations. But the only ways to ban...
View ArticleIs Arizona Next?
Last Friday, Federal District Court Judge John W. Sedwick issued a partial ruling which ordered the state to recognize a gay couple’s marriage after one of the partners died last summer. The state is...
View ArticleMeanwhile in Arizona
From AZCentral.com U.S. District Court Judge John Sedwick issued an order Thursday night stating he believes this week’s appellate court ruling that declared Idaho and Nevada’s marriage restrictions...
View ArticleArizona edges closer to equality
Today was the deadline for parties to submit their briefs arguing whether or not the Ninth’s Circuit’s ruling on marriage equality applies to the state of Arizona. Attorney General Tom Horne seems to...
View ArticleMarriage equality comes to Arizona
U.S. District Court Judge John Sedwick has issued his opinion as to whether or not Arizona’s ban on same-sex marriage is in violation with the US Constitution. And, to no one’s surprise, he found it...
View ArticleGOP governor orders change to Arizona adoption policy
Arizona’s Republican Governor Doug Ducey is angry about gay adoptions and he’s doing something about it. In October of last year, U.S. District Court Judge John Sedwick found that the state’s ban on...
View ArticleTexas Leads 13-State Lawsuit Against Obama’s Transgender Bathroom Directive
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is leading a coalition of thirteen states in a lawsuit filed against the Obama administration. The lawsuit seeks a permanent...
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