Chelsea Manning, Still on Active Duty, is Freed from Fort Leavenworth

Chelsea Manning, Still on Active Duty, is Freed from Fort Leavenworth

Chelsea Manning

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Army Pvt. Chelsea Manning was released from the Fort Leavenworth Disciplinary Barracks under the cover of night early Wednesday, freed from seven years of confinement. The military offered no details on Manning’s release, which was ordered in the final days of the Obama administration. Nor would officials say where she was headed,…

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Chelsea Manning, Still on Active Duty, is Freed from Fort Leavenworth

Help HRC Stop HB3859 in Texas

Help HRC Stop HB3859 in Texas

TAKE ACTION: Send a message to your legislators today!

The wholesale discrimination being launched against LGBTQ Texans is getting noticed across the country:

“TX Bill Would Let Adoption Agencies Reject Families on Religious Grounds.”
-New York Times

“It’s an all out Assault on LGBT People.”
-USA Today

With just days left in this year’s legislative session, extremist members of the Texas legislature are not giving up their attacks on LGBTQ Texans and their families. We are under attack from all sides, and we need you to stand with us to stop Texas from becoming the shame of our nation. 

While there are many legislative assaults against LGBTQ Texans and their families, HB3859 is one of the worst of them and it’s only one step away from going to the Governor’s desk for signature and becoming law. That’s why we need you NOW. Send a message to your State Senator right now opposing HB3859 and send this to others.

This bill wouldn’t just allow adoption & foster care agencies to turn away LGBTQ families. It gives a broad ability to anyone providing service to a child in foster care to deny them. That means doctors could deny hormone therapy to a transgender child, or a foster parent could subject their LGBTQ child to “conversion therapy” by claiming they are simply expressing their religious beliefs.

The National Hispanic Leadership Agenda, a coalition of 45 leading Latino advocacy organizations issued a statement opposing this bill.  “Punishing children in need of families in the name of the politics of exclusion is immoral and inhumane,” said Thomas Saenz, President of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, MALDEF.

Our nation’s leading child welfare organizations including The Child Welfare League of America, The Donaldson Adoption Institute, North American Council on Adoptable Children and Voice for Adoption signed a letter stating that HB3859 would “significantly limit the opportunities for the more than 12,000 Texas children waiting in foster care” and would “sanction discrimination against prospective adoptive or foster parents.”  

That’s why we need you. Send a message to your State Senator right now opposing HB3859. All eyes are on Texas right now, and we have to stand up for LGBTQ children and families. And HB3859 isn’t all – every single day a small group of extreme legislators are trying to add discriminatory language to bills.’’

Let’s keep fighting this together, Friend. There are less than two weeks left in session. Let’s show everyone that Texas doesn’t discriminate.

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With Sheriff David Clarke, President Trump could add another anti-LGBTQ activist to administration

With Sheriff David Clarke, President Trump could add another anti-LGBTQ activist to administration

NEW YORK – This afternoon, reports surfaced that the White House is set to announce the appointment of Sheriff David Clarke to be Assistant Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Partnership and Engagement, adding yet another anti-LGBTQ activist to the most anti-LGBTQ administration in recent memory.

From saying transgender Americans “suffered from mental disorders” to calling on Americans to “rage, then revolt” following the U.S. Supreme Court’s history marriage equality ruling in 2015, David Clarke’s anti-LGBTQ history runs deep. Check out all of Clarke’s anti-LGBTQ record (and more) and via GLAAD’s Trump Accountability Project.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION: David Clarke – Possible Assistant Secretary, DHS Office of Partnership and Engagement

Anti-Trans Statements

  • Said transgender people “suffer from mental disorders” and are “freakish”: “Folks, more evidence that transgender persons suffer from mental disorders more than physiological disorders…Too often in this assault on the First Amendment, and this very totalitarian attitude from the left that any freakish lifestyle, any marginal lifestyle, is now considered part of the norm, and they’re shoving it down our throats. So if you’re not careful when you engage in this conversation, they’ll look for the trap, and they’ll catch you saying something that’s clumsy or not well articulated, and then they’ll just attack you – they’ll attack you with it. ‘Transgender phobic’ and all this other nonsense.”
  • Tweeted that a supportive mother of a transgender elementary school student is guilty of “child abuse.”
  • Mocked the idea that transgender people should have a right to use the bathroom: “How did America go from a nation that figured out how to get a man on the moon to one with people confused about what public bathroom to use.”

Anti-Marriage Statements

  • Insisted: “There is no constitutional “right” to marry. It is a “state” sanctioned ritual based on ordering our society.”
  • Tweeted in response to the 2015 Supreme Court marriage ruling, said he was “born to kick liberal ass.”
  • Responded to the 2015 Supreme Court marriage ruling, called on citizens to “rage, then revolt.”

Statement on Mike Pence’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA)

  • Tweeted that Indiana Republicans were “selling true conservatives into PC slavery” when they compromised on a so-called “religious freedom” bill to make it clear that the law could not be used to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. 

Miscellaneous

  • Claimed President Obama has started a “race war.”
  • Claimed “Planned Genocide” is the mission of Planned Parenthood.
  • Said: “Let me tell you why blacks sell drugs and involve themselves in criminal behavior, instead of a more socially acceptable lifestyle: because they’re uneducated, they’re lazy, and they’re morally bankrupt. That’s why.”
  • Insisted “Black Lies Matter will join forces with ISIS to being [sic] down our legal constituted republic.”
  • Suggested that the president should suspend habeas corpus and send people to Guantanamo Bay without due process: “I suggest that our commander in chief ought to utilize Article I, Section 9 and take all of these individuals that are suspected, these ones on the internet spewing jihadi rhetoric…to scoop them up, charge them with treason and, under habeas corpus, detain them indefinitely at Gitmo.”

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