I won’t mince words: each day, values that we hold dear—values of inclusion, tolerance and equality are in danger like never before. Over the past two weeks, we’ve seen Americans ban together in unprecedented ways from the Women’s March in Washington, D.C., to a small town in Alaska where two feet of snow fell as they marched, to hundreds of international cities around the world and most recently at airports everywhere. It has been inspiring.
Since Obergefell v. Hodges, the anti-LGBTQ argument has been that the First Amendment was curtailed. The backlash has been real and in three years more than 250 anti-LGBT bills were introduced in 29 state legislatures—all based in religious freedoms. In addition to bills allowing business owners to deny services and public accommodations, bills were introduced in several states condoning discrimination in adoption settings against LGBTQ prospective adoptive and foster parents.
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