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reassignment. After a person has taken initial major steps to reassign their gender, ongoing procedures (like hormones, electrolysis, or minor surgical corrections) may simply be considered as "maintenance." In case of cancer prevention or treatment, reproductive organs may need to be chemically disabled or removed, and if the patient is coincidentally happy about the removal for their own personal reasons, that does not necessarily mean the procedure is best thought of as a component of gender transition. Cosmetic procedures may be considered part of the universal human desire to look attractive and may not obviously be gender-related. In psychotherapy, a person who happens to be transgender may need to mention problems or circumstances that are related to their gender identity or transition, events that may be years in the past or future; this does not necessarily mean that the psychotherapist is endorsing or helping them complete their gender transition.
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healthcare; earning a living, seeking a job, or employing others; receiving government grants or contracts; or otherwise participating in the marketplace, the public square, or interfacing with
Federal, State or local governments." This exemption was particularly intended to affect choices related to sexuality, reproduction, and gender. It would have applied to "any organization, including closely held for-profit corporations".
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transgender individuals over the conscience rights of public service providers"; she sided with the public service providers. For a contrasting example, Rev. M Barclay, an openly transgender deacon in the United
Methodist Church, described the same question as "Christians using power and privilege to target marginalized demographics like the LGBTQ community". These different angles are discussing the same question.
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geographic region, etc." While in some cases it may be appropriate for a mental health provider to refer a patient to another provider, this is not always practical, especially in "schools and rural communities." The organization opposes conscience-clause legislation, seeing it as an "intrusion of state legislatures into the education and training of mental health professionals".
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regular basis for the rest of their life. They may also have various kinds of surgery including breast augmentation or removal, genital reshaping, and removal of reproductive organs. Transgender women may have facial feminization surgery, an "Adam's apple reduction" to remove cartilage from the throat (tracheal shave), and electrolysis to remove unwanted facial and body hair.
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posted an apology online, claiming to have recently discovered to her surprise that there is no
Biblical prohibition on interracial marriage, after all. Regardless of Christian doctrine about interracial marriage, Mississippi's 2016 religious freedom law does not mention race, and therefore it may not have protected this instance of racial discrimination.
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percent of respondents said healthcare providers had asked them "unnecessary or invasive questions about their transgender status that were not related to the reason for their visit," while 3 percent were refused "care not related to gender transition (such as physicals or care for the flu or diabetes)."
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Mississippi wedding venue informed an interracial couple, "we don’t do gay weddings or mixed race …because of our Christian race, I mean, our Christian belief...I don’t want to argue my faith...We just don’t participate. We just choose not to." After public backlash, the owner
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required him to do so and that these "ruinous consequences for religious liberty" would continue unless the
Supreme Court someday overturned its own decision. Meanwhile, he lamented, "those with sincerely held religious beliefs concerning marriage will find it increasingly difficult to participate in
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Physicians can cause a patient's death "actively" (for example, by administering a fatal drug) or "passively" (by withholding food, water, or medical care that would prolong life). This option may be offered to patients who are terminally ill and are severely disabled or in great pain with no hope of
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Opportunity Initiative will "notify the Attorney General, or his designee, of concerns raised by faith-based and community organizations about any failures of the executive branch to comply with protections of Federal law for religious liberty" and seek
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Tennessee judge protested the legalization of same-sex marriage by his refusal to issue a divorce to an opposite-sex couple. He argued that the Supreme Court's ruling revealed that it believed the state of Tennessee "to be incompetent to define and address such keystone/central
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Washington state law. Under Title X, pregnant patients must receive "nondirective pregnancy counseling" (i.e. they must be advised of their options in a factual and unbiased manner), and clinics that provide abortion services should remain eligible for funds. Were the new HHS rule to take
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Supreme Court decision, the Trump administration had moved to provide exemptions to employers who claim moral or religious objections to providing contraceptive coverage to their employees, and, in January 2019, a federal judge had blocked these rules from taking effect in
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American Academy of Pediatrics supported repeal of Tennessee's faith-healing law allowing parents to seek "treatment by spiritual means through prayer alone" for their children. In 2008, the organization opposed conscience-clause legislation proposed at the federal level. It released a statement
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In April 2018, a supporter of President Trump was asked to leave a bar in New York City for wearing a "Make American Great Again" hat. The customer's lawyer claimed in court that "The Make American Great Again hat was part of his spiritual belief" (as it is illegal to discriminate against people for
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Discriminating against someone for their transgender identity is different than refusing to participate in a specific action they are taking as part of their gender transition. When the person is discriminated against for their identity, the implication is that they are refused a product or service
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They may seek psychotherapy, either because they choose to do so for their own reasons or because it is part of an established process for gender transition. Some physicians will require a referral letter from a psychotherapist. Transgender people "have routinely been asked to obtain an endorsement
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The Catholic Church has long opposed euthanasia. In 1980, the Vatican issued a Declaration on Euthanasia that explains: "The pleas of gravely ill people who sometimes ask for death are not to be understood as implying a true desire for euthanasia; in fact, it is almost always a case of an anguished
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supports, as of May 2018, over 70 bills across the United States, many of which are religious liberty bills. One of the Project Blitz leaders said in a conference call that the goal of having so many similar bills was to force opponents to "divide their resources out in opposing this." In 2017, the
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In August 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor proposed a new rule to exempt "religious organizations" from nondiscrimination law, saying that such organizations "may make employment decisions consistent with their sincerely held religious tenets and beliefs" and that federal law "should be construed
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argues that "overly broad conceptions of civil rights protections have turned these important laws against themselves," and that, while each protection may seem coherent on its own, "in combination they constitute a recipe for unresolvable conflicts of absolutes." A less abstract and more pragmatic
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decision, saying that a hypothetical baker should be allowed to turn away not only gay people but also people of color. "He should have the opportunity to run his business the way he wants," Clark wrote on Facebook. "If he wants to turn away people of color, then his choice." He later deleted the
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It was created to enforce federal laws related to "conscience and religious freedom." That same day, Indiana University law professor Steve Sanders criticized the new approach as having "the potential to impede access to care, insult the dignity of patients, and allow religious beliefs to override
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In May 2018, President Trump signed an executive order creating the White House Faith and Opportunity Initiative, an expansion of existing initiatives created by Bush and Obama. Agencies and offices in the executive branch will have a liaison to the newly expanded initiative if they do not already
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Scott Johnson, former president of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, said that conscience-based exemptions from discrimination look "simply like prejudice" and that "the problem with conscience is that it can let us do evil as well as good." If a therapist violates AAMFT's
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The American Psychological Association believes that students need to learn their future "ethical obligations regarding non-discrimination" and requires broad-based diversity training "because they may grow and change in their beliefs, preferences in populations with whom they would like to work,
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One type of rhetorical frame depicts the religious freedom controversy as a war of identities. The key is selecting identities to illustrate the problem in a way that the illustration speaks for itself. For example, one Catholic nun identified the question of "favoring the civil liberty rights of
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In January 2021, the Holston United Methodist Home for Children informed a prospective adoptive couple that they would not provide adoption services because the couple was not Christian. Both of the prospective parents were Jewish. The couple sued the Tennessee Department of Children's Services.
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A healthcare provider or administrative assistant who objects to gender reassignment on principle might wish to decline to participate in any or all of these procedures. One pitfall of such a conscience-based refusal is that it is not always clear-cut when a procedure's primary purpose is gender
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editorial warned that the new HHS Conscience and Religious Freedom division will "allow medical professionals and institutions who claim religious objections to deny coverage to transgender people" which "appears to open the way for a doctor or nurse to turn away a transgender individual with a
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In 2014, two women, Krista and Jami Contreras, met with a pediatrician in Detroit shortly before the birth of their child. When the child was six days old, they arrived for their appointment and were told that the doctor had "prayed on it" and decided she could not provide care for the child. A
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To those who believe abortion is murder, it may seem "a particularly deadly form of authoritarianism" to "demand that physicians kill their patients or help to arrange for the killing, even if they believe doing so is wrong." By 2005, in at least a dozen U.S. states, pharmacists had cited their
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the landmark abortion rights Supreme Court decision in 1973, "laws were passed to ensure that hospitals or clinics that received federal funds would be unable to force medical personnel who objected to abortion or sterilization on the grounds of their 'religious beliefs or moral convictions' to
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sued the superintendent, complaining that the school requires her to use each student's preferred name. Her lawsuit said that her "faith teaches her that God immutably creates each person as male or female" and thus she insists on addressing a particular student by their surname, preceded by a
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Gender transition is an individualized process. Transgender people may seek medical changes to their sexual characteristics according to their physical and mental needs and preferences. A person may take hormones (often administered by injection), which they will generally then administer on a
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In September 2019, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that the Phoenix art studio Brush & Nib cannot be required to print wedding invitations for same-sex couples despite an existing nondiscrimination ordinance in the city. The studio's owners successfully argued that producing custom art for
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In early 2017, a four-page draft of an executive order, "Establishing a Government-Wide Initiative to Respect Religious Freedom", circulated within the new Trump administration. It would have allowed organizations not to comply with existing laws "when providing social services, education, or
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In 2006, California passed the Nondiscrimination in State Programs and Activities Act (SB 1441) to withdraw state funding from private universities that enforce a "moral code" regarding students' sexual orientation or gender identity. Karen England, executive director of the Capitol Resource
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The ethics code of the American Medical Association allows physicians to "refuse to participate in torture, interrogation or forced treatment" but not to deny care based on a patient's "race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other criteria that would constitute invidious
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released a report saying that he couldn't find much evidence that anyone's same-sex marriage had caused "actual material discrimination" against anyone who objected to same-sex marriage on religious grounds. Nonetheless, Australia is proceeding with legislation, led by Attorney-General
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Massachusetts Rep. Joseph Kennedy III sponsored a proposed amendment to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act that would have prevented people from claiming religious exemptions to nondiscrimination laws. The amendment, called the Do No Harm Act (H.R. 3222), did not advance.
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to differentiate between genuine religious convictions and beliefs that are made up out of convenience....an employee who merely has a phobia toward transgender people might still claim a 'religious' exemption, and the employer would have little choice but to grant it."
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In September 2020, the Trump administration proposed that the United Nations emphasize "religious freedom" in place of LGBTQ rights. It had obtained signatures from 57 other countries for its proposal to redefine the U.N.'s understanding of international human rights.
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that physicians practicing reproductive medicine, as with any other kind of medicine, have "the obligation to talk with patients about all of their options and, for services which cannot or will not be provided, refer them to someone who can help them without delay".
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examined "private school choice programs that give public money to private religious schools" in the United States and found that "at least 14 percent of religious schools take an active stance against LGBTQ staff and students." In 2020, the Supreme Court decided in
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Code of Ethics, the organization can remove that person's membership in the professional organization even if state law permits the therapist's behavior. The 2012 version of the Code of Ethics "does not speak directly to matters of therapist values or conscience."
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After the January 2018 creation of the Conscience and Religious Freedom Division of the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Reuters reported that "legal and medical ethics experts said that such exemptions have legal limits and would be challenged in court."
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different doctor had been assigned to the family. The original doctor later wrote to the couple: "After much prayer following your prenatal, I felt that I would not be able to develop the personal patient-doctor relationships that I normally do with my patients."
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Between 2013 and 2015, the federal government granted over 30 exemptions to religious colleges who did not wish to comply with federal antidiscrimination law applying to gender identity and sexual orientation, according to a report by the Human Rights Coalition.
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to "reduce...burdens on the exercise of religious convictions and legislative, regulatory, and other barriers to the full and active engagement of faith-based and community organizations in Government-funded or Government-conducted activities and programs."
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Bakery owners Melissa and Aaron Klein were fined by the state of Oregon for refusing in 2013 to sell a cake for a same-gender wedding. They raised money from supporters and appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which decided in 2019 to send the case,
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turning down a lesbian couple who wanted to foster parent a migrant or refugee child; the couple sued. In January 2019, Health and Human Services granted South Carolina an exemption from non-discrimination rules. The U.S. Supreme Court decided
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wrote on social media that gay people will go to Hell, he was fired on the grounds that he violated the rugby players' code of conduct. He sued on the grounds that his firing constitutes illegal discrimination against his Christian beliefs.
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perform those procedures." At the end of President George W. Bush's administration, "a new 'conscience clause' took effect, cutting off federal funding for institutions that failed to accommodate employees' religious or moral objections."
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Opponents of such bills frame them instead as "religious refusal bills", "bigot bills", or as a "license to discriminate", highlighting how much legislation allows individuals and businesses to openly espouse prejudice, especially against
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on June 17, 2021, ruling that a religious foster care agency that receives taxpayer funds may refuse to serve same-sex couples, even though a nondiscrimination provision is part of its contract with the City of Philadelphia.
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society." On March 18, 2022, a federal judge ruled that Davis “cannot use her own constitutional rights as a shield to violate the constitutional rights of others while performing her duties as an elected official.”
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couples in 2015, whereas straight adults and people living in other states did not report the same increase in mental distress. Similarly, an analysis by scientists at the University of Pittsburgh published in the
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found that, after Indiana passed a religious freedom law in 2015, people in Indiana who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or who question their sexual orientation self-reported worse physical and mental health.
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letter from a psychologist attesting to the stability of their gender identity as a prerequisite to access an endocrinologist, surgeon, or legal institution (e.g., driver's license bureau)".
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because the administration knew that she supported same-sex marriage, even though she offered to keep her beliefs private. She filed a discrimination claim. In May 2019, after rugby player
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in accordance with traditional religious teachings without being punished by the government for doing so. This typically concerns an employee who objects to abortion, euthanasia,
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effect, nearly all of the current Title X healthcare providers in the State of Washington would be denied funding. The following November, Judge Stanley A. Bastian of the
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personal morality in their refusal to fill prescriptions for birth control, including "emergency contraception" to prevent a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus.
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grants. The next day, the State of Washington filed a lawsuit against HHS (State of Washington v. Azar), complaining that the new HHS rule was in violation of
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institutions such as marriage, and, thereby, at minimum, contested divorces" and said that he would wait for further instruction from the Supreme Court.
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to provide the broadest protection of religious exercise recognized by the Constitution and other laws, such as the Religious Freedom Restoration Act."
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recovery. If the patient is unable to communicate or consent, sometimes family members may be asked to decide. This option is called "
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their religious beliefs), while the bar's lawyer claimed that "supporting Trump is not a religion." The judge dismissed the case.
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2821:"Businesses Can't Fire Trans Employees for Religious Reasons, Federal Appeals Court Rules in Landmark Decision"
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2792:"Leaked Draft of Trump's Religious Freedom Order Reveals Sweeping Plans to Legalize Discrimination"
2667:"Opinion: A Tennessee couple's struggle to adopt shows religious freedom is under siege in America"
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835:"The Gender Identity Mandate: The latest threat to health care rights of conscience (13 Sept 2016)"
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1085:"Phoenix artists don't have to make LGBTQ wedding invitations, Arizona Supreme Court rules"
959:"Opinion | Religious Extremists Got Their Justice. Now They're Going To Strip LGBTQ Rights"
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1353:"Commentary: 'Religious Liberty' Is Not an Excuse to Deny Transgender People Medical Care"
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that states cannot discriminate against religious schools when allocating public funds.
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Institute, described this as "an outright, blatant assault on religious freedom.”
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2591:"Religious freedom laws should not exempt antidiscrimination provisions"
2544:"Georgia mayor under fire for alleged remarks about black job candidate"
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936:"Judge nixes lawsuit brought by Trump supporter tossed from NYC bar"
911:"U.S. government to shield health workers under 'religious freedom'"
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687:"Arkansas governor signs new 'religious freedom' bill"
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1705:"Judge blocks Trump contraception rule in 13 states"
2568:"Bob Jones University Drops Interracial Dating Ban"
2108:"Lesbian Couple Barred From Fostering Migrant Kids"
318:that employers and universities may opt out of the
2040:"Sacked rugby player Folau sues over anti-gay row"
1802:Zamichow, Nora; Murray, Ken (26 December 2014).
1292:Caldwell, Benjamin E. (September–October 2013).
282:Religiously motivated reasons for discrimination
1427:"When 'Religious Freedom' Leaves Children Dead"
1628:"Entrenching a 'duty to do wrong' in medicine"
137:Klein v. Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries
2739:Raifman, Julia; Galea, Sandro (23 May 2018).
1804:"The Hippocratic oath and the terminally ill"
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224:Conscience and Religious Freedom Division.
863:. United Methodist Church. Archived from
530:In 2022, a middle school math teacher in
275:Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue
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667:State Religious Freedom Restoration Acts
327:13 states and the District of Columbia.
2691:"House Bill 164 | The Ohio Legislature"
2131:Fitzsimons, Tim; AP (24 January 2019).
984:"U.S. Pastor Council v. City of Austin"
784:Ford, Richard Thompson (12 June 2018).
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957:Signorile, Michelangelo (2018-10-21).
712:"Conscience Protection – Get Informed"
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125:U.S. Pastor Council v. City of Austin,
2449:. No. All Things Considered. NPR
1655:. Scientific American. 1 October 2005
430:Australia legalized same-sex marriage
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886:Kuruvilla, Carol (11 October 2017).
2843:"Do No Harm Act (2017 - H.R. 3222)"
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617:American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
2766:"Pitt Health Sciences, 10/11/2018"
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2445:McEvers, Kelly (18 January 2018).
2348:Beresford, Meka (1 January 2017).
2013:Martin, Lisa (16 September 2019).
1674:U.S. Supreme Court (8 July 2020).
1405:American Psychological Association
1351:Sanders, Steve (18 January 2018).
1238:Stewart, Katherine (26 May 2018).
810:Sanders, Steve (18 January 2018).
231:Positions of medical organizations
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2516:Bernstein, David (2 April 2015).
2394:Tognotti, Chris (21 April 2018).
2083:Bollinger, Alex (27 April 2018).
1963:Bolger, Rosemary (12 July 2019).
1753:"E.D. Wash. 2:19-cv-00183 Docket"
1603:Barasch, Alex (18 January 2018).
1301:Family Therapy Magazine (page 24)
1058:Villarreal, Daniel (2019-06-17).
786:"Anti-Discrimination Eats Itself"
640:Religious Freedom Restoration Act
630:Religious Freedom Restoration Act
2157:"Fulton v. City of Philadelphia"
1013:"Texas Values v. City of Austin"
909:Clarke, Toni (18 January 2018).
468:Catholic Charities of Fort Worth
2490:Elassar, Alaa (12 March 2022).
2471:. Boston Globe. 20 January 2018
1509:(Press release). 28 August 2006
1448:Andrusko, Dave; Townsend, Liz.
1240:"A Christian Nationalist Blitz"
1165:Banks, Adelle M. (2 May 2018).
1108:Geidner, Chris (June 7, 2024).
736:Lopez, German (25 March 2016).
655:United States Attorneys' Manual
651:"Respect for Religious Liberty"
428:In December 2018, a year after
129:Texas Values v. City of Austin.
2866:Tillman, Zoe (29 April 2018).
2161:American Civil Liberties Union
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1879:Papenfuss, Mary (2022-03-20).
1854:Bollinger, Alex (2020-10-05).
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685:Trager, Kevin (2 April 2015).
610:Side effects of discrimination
474:Fulton v. City of Philadelphia
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1553:Klein, Rebecca (2017-12-15).
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859:Hahn, Heather (5 June 2017).
347:Euthanasia (assisted suicide)
227:mainstream medical science."
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2548:Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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762:Goodwyn, Wade (2019-05-06).
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1833:Catholic News Agency
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584:Masterpiece Cakeshop
561:Bob Jones University
532:Geary County, Kansas
507:Transgender identity
408:Obergefell v. Hodges
324:"out-of-pocket cost"
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320:Affordable Care Act
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