Republicans cloaked another attack on equality in the language of religious liberty with Senate Bill 124. The bill carves out room for religious zealots to…
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The Gorsuch Court blew up the anti-LGBT efforts of Republican leaders last summer when it ruled that the plain text of the 1964 Civil Rights…
But let’s not fall for Lee Schoenbeck’s nice-guy act, or for Julie Frye-Mueller’s hogwash about Lee’s being an “East River liberal.” The Watertown Senator may…
The Obama-Biden Administration extended numerous protections against discrimination to LGBT Americans. The Trump-Pence Administration has repealed most of those protections, including provisions for equitable treatment…
Just as it loses one fight for discrimination, the Trump Administration invites another. On Tuesday, the Department of Health and Human Services announced a rule…
The American Civil Liberties Union reminds us that South Dakota is on the wrong side of the three big LGBTQ discrimination cases the United States…
In openers at yesterday’s final 2019 Aberdeen crackerbarrel, rookie Representative Kaleb Weis (R-3/Aberdeen) showed himself not to be a complete blithering idiot. He opened with…
Attorney General Marty Jackley continues to use the authority of his office to support efforts to make life worse for Americans. Last week Jackley further…
The Sioux Falls City Council chickened out of advancing an ordinance last year to protect LGBT residents from discrimination. Braver Brookings has picked up the…
Seeming to coordinate with SDGOP chair Dan Lederman’s bushwah about inclusiveness, Governor Dennis Daugaard says South Dakota’s effort to write religious discrimination into law doesn’t make us…