A civil rights advocacy group has filed a federal complaint against DTE Energy on behalf of a former worker who alleges he faced discrimination and unfair discipline by a supervisor over his religious rituals.
A University of California-Santa Cruz researcher says “kinky people” should be recognized as a protected class.
UCSC researcher Sam Hughes argues during an interview with City on a Phil Media that those who engage in taboo sexual activity are often discriminated against in ways he says are comparable to those experienced by members of the LGBT community.
After a former Sesame Street scribe said he wrote Bert and Ernie “as a loving couple,” Sesame Workshop, the education organization behind the children’s program, issued a statement proclaiming that the beloved characters “do not have a sexual orientation.” “As we have always said, Bert and Ernie are best friends. They were created to teach preschoolers that people can be good friends with those who are very different from themselves,” the statement read. “Even though they are identified as male characters and possess many human traits and characteristics (as most Sesame Street puppets do), they remain puppets, and do not have a sexual orientation.”
Black First, Land First spokesperson Lindsay Maasdorp has told the author of this article and others about the controversial party that my “existence is a crime.”
When it comes to distinguishing Republicans from Democrats in the 2018 midterm elections, a tax-policy expert contends it can’t be said enough that Democrats intend to roll back the tax cuts and reform that many economists believe have been the major catalyst for the current economic resurgence.
Bill Hayden, a former Governor-General of Australia and lifelong atheist, has found God and gotten baptized in a Roman Catholic Church at 85 years of age.
A Planned Parenthood campaign to force religious institutions in California to pay for abortions prompted a state agency to change the way it interprets its rules, and now the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is being asked to reject the constitutional violations that resulted.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has defended her work for U.S. President Donald Trump as a Christian, insisting that the basis of the faith is that "we are all sinners."
A U.K. government inquiry is underway to investigate why there's an over 4,000 percent increase in children seeking to "transition" to the opposite sex. The available data says that young people referred for "gender treatment" has increased from 97 in 2009–2010 to 2,510 in 2017–2018, a 4,415 percent increase in less than a decade, the UK Express reported Sunday.
Cargill Meat Solutions, law firm Rathod Mohamedbhai LLC and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) announced that they have reached a settlement to resolve Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charges filed on behalf of 138 Somali-American Muslim workers. The workers at a Fort Morgan, Colorado-based Cargill plant filed a suit alleging wrongful termination based on discrimination. The Somali Muslim employees were not given permission to take breaks to pray.
On a day of mourning for the 3,000 people killed on Sept, 11, 2001, by Islamic terrorists inspired by Osama bin Laden, a middle school social studies teacher allegedly decided to skip that part of the discussion Tuesday and instead teach a fictionalized account of a Muslim boy being picked on because his name is Osama.
Although sporting hijabs have been around for several years, Nike is the first major brand to enter this market. Different views and laws from different parts of the world have made hijab the subject of a worldwide debate in the past few years. But Muslim women from across the globe have shattered stereotypes by achieving excellence in their respective fields including sports while wearing a hijab.
Student council members at The University of Wisconsin-Madison are demanding the school change the ingredients in the official university ice cream, claiming that the current ingredients are discriminatory toward some minority students.
Actress Anne Hathaway told an audience Saturday night that she’s been frightened by the hatred of LGBT people that bigots spew — but a speech by former Vice President Joe Biden went a long way to restoring her faith.
China’s period of quiet tolerance of religion is coming to an end. Just a day after the government banned Zion Church, one of the largest unofficial Protestant churches in Beijing, confiscating “illegal promotional materials,” the National Religious Affairs Administration released a draft of regulations that prohibit all foreigners from preaching online.
On Monday George Gatteny was driving near the Somerville Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Massachusetts when he noticed a man pulling miniature flags from the ground in the veterans cemetery.
One of the nation's leading online health websites says while it's not replacing the word "vagina" with the term "front hole," it does recommend using the term as a way to not offend transgender people.
New York City is the most recent city to allow a third gender option on birth certificates for persons who do not identify as male or female. They will be classified as gender X.
Democracy depends on the ability to end others’ lives before they’re even born, according to one famed feminist. Netflix released a trailer for its new documentary, Reversing Roe, on Sept. 4. The timely teaser for the abortion law film comes during Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings. The film hits computer screens Sept. 13, and appears to include interviews with abortion activists including Gloria Steinem.
Shameless, the hit Showtime series, has had its fair share of Christian bashing throughout the years. Perhaps most notably last season when Ian Gallagher (Cameron Monaghan), went up against a pastor, cherry-picking Bible verses to fit his agenda, and started his own ‘Church of Gay Jesus’ religious movement. In the season 9 premiere, Ian is back, this time fighting for gay rights while quoting Jesus from jail.
