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Cincinnati.com
April 11, 2018
This localized legislation impacts the required level of coverage you have to carry, the degree and frequency in which insurance companies can raise ... will drive up their auto insurance cost, but have no actual effect on insurance premiums including: the color of your car, your income, your race or religion,Ãâà...
CNBC
April 10, 2018
This map, created by labor and employment-focused law firm Fisher Phillips, highlights legislative differences between states by showing which ones have gender-specific pay protections, gender-specific protections as well as protections for other categories (such as race, religion or national origin), or noÃâà...
WTVA
April 10, 2018
In North Carolina, the state general assembly enacted a "preemptive law" in 2013 that prohibits cities like Durham from passing laws to increase the minimum wage above the state ... Imagine what we could accomplish if we truly believed all women were equal, no matter their race, religion or politics.
The Hill
April 10, 2018
Tillis noted that he's had conversations with Graham about merging their legislation. GOP leadership has repeatedly dismissed the need for Congress to preemptively take action. Tillis's comments come after Trump lashed out following an FBI raid on the offices and hotel room of his personal attorney,Ãâà...
News & Observer
April 10, 2018
North Carolina state judges favored Republican legislative leaders Monday in the latest batch of rulings over laws that Democratic Gov. ... to insert into a portion of those documents a $10 million annual increase in taxpayer-funded scholarships for K-12 students to attend private or religious schools.
CNN
April 3, 2018
President Ronald Reagan signed into law a bill creating a national holiday in King's name in 1983, and King's vision remains the foundational lexicon of ..... in Southern states such as North Carolina, where Republican-controlled legislatures have sought new methods to suppress black voter participation.
Center For American Progress
April 3, 2018
While Title VII permits religious organizations to hire employees that share their religion, neither the statute nor subsequent case law allows religious ..... the acting assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division, previously defended the University of North Carolina school system after the ObamaÃâà...
The Atlantic
April 3, 2018
Reverend William J. Barber's “Moral Mondays” movement is an outlier among other modern movements, publicly using his religious beliefs as the motivation to combat poverty, voter disenfranchisement, healthcare inequalities, and other “immoral” legislation in the state of North Carolina. Since its genesisÃâà...
Southern Poverty Law Center
March 22, 2018
SB7 is similar to the model anti-Muslim legislation known as Andy's Law, a bill that is now on the books in seven states: Arkansas, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Tennessee. Andy's Law is part of a suite of anti-Muslim legislation that includes anti-Sharia bills and some forms ofÃâà...
WFMYNews2.com
March 22, 2018
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" is the Establishment Clause and Free Exercise Clause of the ... Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, Dr. Jerry Pubantz, says the answer lies in ambiguity.
WUNC
March 21, 2018
Ehrman is a distinguished professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His new book, "The Triumph of Christianity: How A Forbidden Religion Swept The World," is about how Christianity, which began with just a few followers, became the religion of the Roman Empire andÃâà...
WLOS
March 20, 2018
Alabama, Michigan, Mississippi, Virginia, North Dakota and South Dakota all have similar laws about religious discrimination. Foster mother Aundrea Rue doesn't think this will hurt the number of foster parents in South Carolina. "Ultimately, anyone who qualifies to foster and wants to foster can totally do it through the stateÃâà...
NPR
March 20, 2018
Ehrman is a distinguished professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His new book, "The Triumph of Christianity: How A Forbidden Religion Swept The World," is about how Christianity, which began with just a few followers, became the religion of the Roman Empire andÃâà...
LGBTQ Nation
March 15, 2018
The Kentucky House of Representatives is swerving away from a freedom-to-hate bill — thanks in part to businesses pushing back. House Bill 372 would have given churches and religious organizations the right to ignore the municipal LGBTQ protections now in nine Kentucky cities. The original bill had 46Ãâà...
Wyandotte Daily
March 13, 2018
Cereal malt beverage sale regulations (HB 2502): House Bill 2502 allows cereal malt beverage (no more than 6.0 percent alcohol volume) licenses to be subject .... Florida, Kentucky, Colorado, North Carolina and Alabama are currently looking at joining Kansas as states that will allow teachers and schoolÃâà...
The Intercept
March 12, 2018
These incidents include public denunciations of Islam and Muslims by elected officials, proposed laws targeting Muslim religious practice, mosque ... A number of high-profile incidents — such as the 2015 murder of three Muslim students in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and the abduction and murder of aÃâà...
WJCL News
March 5, 2018
Some likened it to North Carolina's "bathroom bill" that forced transgender people to use the public restroom for the sex they were assigned at birth instead of the gender they identify with. Much of the North Carolina bill was ultimately repealed. Georgia's new adoption law will also allow out-of-state parentsÃâà...
Gainesville Times
March 4, 2018
One slip, as North Carolina discovered with its ill-fated transgender bathroom law, can cost a state dearly for years. On one ... Perhaps this would have passed muster with the lieutenant governor if Delta had tied its discounts to a religious philosophy rather than trying to make a point about school safety.
Alaska Dispatch News
March 4, 2018
They say it's rooted in fundamental religious beliefs about the differences between men and women, and keeping women and children safe from .... Encouraged by the activity in Houston and North Carolina, Minnery's organization focused on a specific piece of Anchorage's non-discrimination law — aÃâà...
News & Observer
March 3, 2018
While political and religious leanings often trend together, there are religious conservatives who believe additional gun control is needed, and religious liberals who hold broad ... Hundreds of mostly students march from Pullen Memorial Baptist Church in Raleigh to the North Carolina State Capitol on Feb.
WRAL Tech Wire
March 2, 2018
In a letter sent to Amazon founder and top executive Jeff Bezos, the activists cite concerns about North Carolina in the wake of the so-called “bathroom bill” or HB2 was passed in 2016. That law was repealed in 2017 but not before the state was hit by business decisions such as loss of NCAA tournamentÃâà...
The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines
February 11, 2018
Next, we have House File 2164 — a trans bathroom bill, a watered-down version of North Carolina's infamously bad law. Finally, there is Senate File 2154 — a restoring religious freedom bill so broadly written it seems you can claim religious exemption to any state or local law, except in prison. For allÃâà...
Lexington Herald Leader
December 31, 1999
Other states, including North Carolina, have suffered economic boycotts by wading into controversial battles over sexual orientation and civil-rights ... Initially, the bill would have created a new section of law to protect churches and religious organizations, such as religious schools and universities, fromÃâà...
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