RELIGION HEADLINES
Written by on August 8, 2024
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A federal judge has ruled that Florida’s transgender health care ban discriminates against state employees and violates their civil rights. Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker says the state’s ban violates the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which protects employees and job applicants from employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin. The lawsuit was filed in 2020 by three current and former state employees against the Florida Department of Management Services. Similar cases are cropping up across the country.
Louisiana has some new pro-family laws, including some that had been blocked by former Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards. Now that Republican Jeff Landry has entered office, previously vetoed bills have been able to pass and become law. One new statute broadly bars teachers from discussing so-called gender identity and sexual orientation in schools. In addition, the measure prohibits covering those topics during any extracurricular activity that students might participate in that is under the jurisdiction of the school.
There has been a nationwide expansion of maternity homes in the two years since the Supreme Court overturned Roe versus Wade. Christian pro-life advocates want to open more of these transitional housing facilities for pregnant women to meet a growing need. It’s part of what they see as the next step in preventing abortions and providing long-term support for families. There are now more than 450 maternity homes in the U.S. and most of them are faith-based. Plans are in the works to establish hundreds more.
A man’s use of the women’s locker room at a suburban St. Louis gym is prompting protests and calls for an investigation. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the man joined the gym late last month. Now protesters are calling for a boycott and an investigation by the state’s Republican attorney general. Life Time gym says the man provided a driver’s license listing him as female. A spokesman for the gym points to the Missouri Human Rights Act which “prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex.”
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