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| | WORLD Marriage in Greece, UK politics, cruise death, HRC grants 2024-02-02 - The Holy Synod of the Church of Greece unanimously agreed at a recent meeting that it is "strongly opposed" to the Greek government's promised bill on same-sex marriage and adoption, Balkan Insight reported. The conservative New ...
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| | Israeli court rules that same-sex couples can adopt children 2023-12-29 - In a decision hailed as groundbreaking, Israel's High Court unanimously ruled on Dec. 28 that same-sex couples may adopt children under the terms of a 1981 adoption law, The Times of Israel reported. Employing a different ...
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| | Law will reduce barriers to gender-neutral multiple-occupancy restrooms in businesses, universities, building 2023-08-12 --From a press release - CHICAGO — Advocates celebrated Governor JB Pritzker's signing of House Bill 1286, legislation that will reduce barriers for businesses serving their communities and customers by allowing for the adoption of ...
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| | Illinois House passes legislation allowing gender-neutral multiple-occupancy restrooms 2023-03-24 --From a press release - CHICAGO — Advocates celebrated passage by the Illinois House of legislation that will reduce barriers for businesses serving their communities and customers by allowing for the adoption of gender-neutral multiple-occupancy ...
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| | Slovenia legalizes marriage equality, adoption 2022-10-05 - Slovenia has become the first Eastern European country to legalize same-sex marriage and adoption. The historic moment has come about after a six-to-three Constitutional Court decision in July said that same-sex marriage and adoption are constitutional ...
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| | WORLD Slovenia marriage item, Antigua and Barbuda, Berlin mosque 2022-07-10 - In Slovenia, the Constitutional Court legalized same-sex marriage and adoptions after finding a law under which only heterosexual partners can marry and same-sex couples cannot adopt children to be in contravention of the constitutional ban on ...
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| | Michigan settlement lets faith-based agencies reject same-sex adoptions 2022-01-26 - Faith-based adoption agencies that contract with Michigan can refuse to place children with same-sex couples under a proposed settlement filed in federal court, a HuffPost item noted. The development happened months after the U.S. Supreme Court ...
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| | WORLD Adoption ban, trans soldier, Belgium killing, archbishop 2021-03-14 - Same-sex couples will be barred from adopting children in Poland even as single parents, under a new law announced by a nationalist ruling party that has made anti-gay policies a major part of its governing platform, ...
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| | NATIONAL Virginia items, Marriott CEO, Black LGBTQ+ icons, trans kids' book 2021-02-21 - Virginia lawmakers are about to roll back a state law that allows faith-based adoption and foster-care agencies to refuse service to LGBTQ families, VirginiaMercury.com reported. The legislation has spurred heated ...
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| | NATIONAL Adoption-agency case, Chick-fil-A, LGBTQ candidates, Cher 2020-08-24 - The U.S. Supreme Court set Wed., Nov. 4, as the date when it will hear oral arguments on whether a taxpayer-funded, religious-affiliated adoption agency can lawfully reject same-sex couplesa case that could have significant impact on ...
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| | Lutheran Child and Family Services of Illinois recognized by HRC Foundation for LGBTQ-inclusion 2020-05-28 - Oakbrook Terrace, IL — Lutheran Child and Family Services of Illinois (LCFS), the second largest community-based provider of child welfare services in Illinois, including foster care and adoption, proudly announced ...
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| | WORLD China couple, Finland adoption, Pride masks, Morocco influencer
2020-04-29 - A Chinese lesbian couple's landmark court battle over the custody of their two children has stirred debate over LGBT rights and put a spotlight on the absence of a same-sex marriage law, Reuters reported. Shanghai resident ...
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| | ELECTIONS 2020 JUDICIAL (FLEMING VAC.) Trowbridge on race, lessons, LGBT judges 2020-02-24 - Brad Trowbridge has been an attorney for 20 years specializing in a wide swath of family law issues including, but not limited to, LGBT family matters, adoption and divorce at his Chicago-based law firm. Trowbridge is ...
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| | Tenn. Gov. Bill Lee signs anti-gay adoption bill 2020-01-25 - Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed a controversial bill that would let adoption agencies deny service to same-sex couples, among others, based on religious stances. The law takes effect immediately. Several ...
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| | International Human Rights Day legislation would make U.S. LGBTI protections leader 2019-12-10 - Washington (December 10, 2019) Today, as the United Nations commemorates the anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Jeanne Shaheen ...
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