Former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis, who gained national attention when she refused to grant marriage licenses to gay partners in 2015, has now been ordered by a federal jury to pay one gay couple a total of $100,000.
Representative Julie Brownley from California (D) is leading the charge to remove gendered words from federal law, replacing the terms with gender-neutral language.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has ruled that a school's decision was legal for firing a guidance counselor for being in a same-sex marriage.
Justice Neil Gorsuch, who wrote the majority opinion, declared, "The First Amendment’s protections belong to all, not just to speakers whose motives the government finds worthy. In this case, Colorado seeks to force an individual to speak in ways that align with its views but defy her conscience about a matter of major significance."
State Sen. Caroline Menjivar of Burbank, who penned the bill, has proposed an extended interpretation of "infertility," defined as: “A person’s inability to reproduce either as an individual or with their partner without medical intervention.”