Motif Jessica Bunuh Mirna karena Iri, Bukan LGBT
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Missouri Senate Advances Attack on LGBT People to House of Representatives
Today, HRC denounced a vote of 23 to 7 by the Missouri Senate advancing Senate Joint Resolution (SJR) 39 to the House of Representatives. Gaining national attention after a historic filibuster by Democrats earlier this week, the outrageous measure proposes to allow individuals, organizations, and businesses to use religion as a valid excuse to discriminate against LGBT people.
Similar to so-called “First Amendment Defense Act” legislation introduced in other states, this extreme resolution would lead to a ballot measure that, if approved by voters, would enshrine discrimination against LGBT people and their families into the state constitution. If the House of Representatives passes the resolution, it would go directly to the ballot and the governor would have no opportunity to veto it.
“SJR 39 is an irresponsible and shameful attempt by Missouri lawmakers to put LGBT people and their families in serious danger of even further discrimination,” said HRC Legal Director Sarah Warbelow. “The freedom to practice one’s religion is one of the founding principles of our country, but to use it as a means of state-sanctioned discrimination is completely unacceptable. We call on the Missouri House of Representatives to listen to the overwhelming chorus of pro-equality voices outraged by this proposal and reject this attack on LGBT people.”
Earlier this week, the Senate Democrats vigorously fought to stop the anti-equality majority with a historic 39-hour filibuster effort that drew national attention and praise. The discriminatory proposal has received widespread condemnation from fair-minded Missourians and businesses throughout the state, including Governor Jay Nixon, theSt. Louis Post Dispatch, the St. Louis Regional Chamber, Dow Chemical Company, and Monsanto. The St. Louis Regional Chamber on Twitter said the proposal is “counter to MO values & will have negative economic consequences.” Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders also spoke out against the bill.
SJR 39 goes far beyond protecting the right of free exercise of one’s religion. While shrouded in language framed as prohibiting the state government from making funding or tax status decisions based on an organization’s views on marriage that are driven by religious belief, in reality it opens the door to discrimination against same-sex couples, their families, and those who love them.
The legislation could have reckless intended and unintended consequences. If voted into law, LGBT people and their families could suddenly find themselves at risk of being denied many basic services. Taxpayer-funded foster care providers and adoption agencies could refuse to place children in need of loving homes with same-sex couples. Taxpayer-funded homeless shelters could turn away LGBT couples and their families. Businesses could refuse to provide goods or services to same-sex couples. The measure could also undermine existing LGBT non-discrimination protections passed at the local level, including in cities like Columbia, Kansas City, and St. Louis.
The resolution addresses no real problem in the state as no federal or state law requires religious organizations or clergy to sanction or perform same-sex marriages.
Feeling the Evening Sun
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HRC Launches Business Coalition for the Equality Act; 60 Companies Take Stand for LGBT Equality
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#BeInTheKnow: National Women and Girls HIV & AIDS Awareness Day
Today marks National Women and Girls HIV & AIDS Awareness Day, an opportunity to focus our attention on the impact of HIV and AIDS on women and girls in the United States. Additionally, we honor today in tandem with Women’s History Month, recognizing the women who have fought against the HIV & AIDS epidemic as well as the many living with HIV.
Before becoming Director of HRC’s Children, Youth, and Families Program in 2005, Ellen Kahn spent 13 years working at Whitman-Walker Health, a Washington, D.C. community health center specializing in HIV & AIDS and LGBT care. She had various roles, including Director of the Lesbian Services Program.
“Early into the HIV epidemic, lesbian, bisexual and queer women sprang into action to take care of their gay and bisexual brothers and friends,” she told HRC. “Women must continue to step up and step into conversations about sex and sexuality to model for girls and young women the importance of sexual health and well-being, to promote agency over one’s body and to underscore the importance of making comprehensive, LGBTQ-inclusive sexual health education and care available to all.”
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), approximately 25 percent of all people living with HIV in the U.S. are women. The most common method of HIV transmission among women is heterosexual sexual contact. Of all the women living with HIV in 2011, only 45 percent were engaged in care, and only 32 percent were able to consistently take their medication and reduce the amount of HIV in their bodies to undetectable levels. Additionally, some communities of women – including those who are of color and/or identify as transgender – are especially susceptible to contracting HIV.
While these stats may surprise some, there are several prevention challenges. For example, women may not always be in a position to negotiate safer sex practices. Cisgender women are also more physiologically susceptible to contracting STIs than their cisgender male counterparts, which means an increased risk of contracting HIV; and transgender women are often subject to stigma and discrimination, which may prevent them from accessing HIV-related services — not to mention staggering rates of unemployment and homelessness, sometimes leading to survival sex work.
“It is crucial that trans women are included in conversations about HIV’s impact on women and girls because we are in a state of emergency,” Blossom Brown, a transgender health advocate from Mississippi, told HRC. “Often, trans women are often overlooked and underserved because of stigma. We are often grouped with gay and bisexual men, and that is not acceptable. Women are women no matter what. Whether trans or cis, we are in this together.”
To learn more and to take action, get tested for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. Seek out treatment as soon as possible in order to stay healthy. Take steps to protect yourself and your loves ones from the spread of HIV and seek out information from the CDC, Positive Women’s Network, Center of Excellence for Transgender Health and other organizations working on this issue.
HRC is committed to working with our allies, partners, members, and supporters to end the HIV epidemic and the stigma surrounding HIV. Click here to learn more, and join the conversation on social media using the hashtags #BeInTheKnow and #NWGHAAD.
Accelerating Acceptance: GLAAD report sheds light on LGBT discomfort in U.S. South
GLAAD’s second annual Accelerating Acceptance report continued to show increased discomfort toward LGBT Americans. And today, new data compares attitudes about LGBT people living in the U.S. South with national numbers.
The data comes as GLAAD releases two media guides in its Southern Stories series – one of for journalists reporting on LGBT people in Alabama and another for reporting in Mississippi.
While the public is increasingly embracing LGBT rights and equal protection under the law, many are still uncomfortable with having LGBT people in their families and the communities where they live, with rates even higher in the South. Key findings from GLAAD’s Accelerating Acceptance 2016 survey reveals several realities about LGBT by non-LGBT people in the South.
Southerners continue to report higher levels of discomfort in situations with LGBT people, compared to the general US population.
One third of Southerners report being very or somewhat uncomfortable seeing a same-sex couple holding hands, compared to 29% nationally.Southerners are slightly more unconcerned or unaware of important issues facing the LGBT community than the rest of the country.
28% of Southerners said HIV and AIDS within the LGBT community was not serious, compared to 24% nationally.Despite important milestones like marriage equality, there is still much progress to be made for full LGBT acceptance and equality in both states. Many counties in the south do not have laws protecting members of the LGBT community from employment, housing, and public accommodations discrimination. Furthermore, transgender people are not guaranteed necessary medical care.
The new data are part of GLAAD’s U.S. South Southern Stories initiative, which aims to positively showcase the lives of, and build acceptance for, the LGBT community in southern states. This is done through sharing the stories of people from a wide array of backgrounds, including faith-based organizations, sports teams, military personnel, and more. GLAAD will continue to work with the media to ensure positive portrayal of the LGBT community across the South.
www.glaad.org/blog/accelerating-acceptance-glaad-report-sheds-light-lgbt-discomfort-us-south
HRC Announces 60 Companies Launch Business Coalition for the Equality Act
Today, HRC announced the launch of HRC’s Business Coalition for the Equality Act, a coalition of 60 major employers that have officially endorsed the bipartisan Equality Act.
Since HRC joined with lawmakers and advocates last July to introduce the Equality Act in Congress, HRC has continued to build support from the business community. Today, the Business Coalition for the Equality Act launches with 60 leading American companies. With operations in all 50 states, headquarters spanning 22 states and a combined $1.9 trillion in revenue, the companies that make up the coalition employ over 4.2 million people in the United States.
“These business leaders are showing true leadership and fighting to end a shameful status quo that leaves LGBT people at risk in a majority of states for being denied services or fired because of who they are or who they love,” said HRC President Chad Griffin. “We’re proud of all these corporate leaders stepping forward to say that all Americans, including LGBT people, should be able to live free from fear of discrimination and have a fair chance to earn a living.”
A majority of states — 32 states in total — still lack fully inclusive non-discrimination protections for LGBT people, and there are no explicit federal protections against discrimination. Introduced one month after the historic Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges that ushered in nationwide marriage equality, the Equality Act would finally guarantee explicit, permanent protections for LGBT people under our existing civil rights laws. The Equality Act provides clear, permanent and equal protections under federal law for all Americans in vital areas of life, like employment, access to public spaces, housing, credit, education, jury service, and federally funded programs.
Members of HRC’s Business Coalition for the Equality Act
Today’s announcement comes as dozens of grassroots supporters, advocates and fan out across Capitol Hill to educate Members of Congress about the need to pass the Equality Act. 170 HRC members from 23 states and the District of Columbia are scheduled to visit with 151 offices to grow support for the Equality Act in Congress. In addition to the Equality Act, lobby day participants will urge Senators to support a hearing for President Obama’s forthcoming Supreme Court nomination, among other LGBT equality issues.
Discrimination is a real and persistent problem for too many LGBT Americans. Nearly two-thirds of self-identified LGBT Americans have reported experiencing discrimination in HRC’s polling — including people like Carter Brown, a transgender man who lost his job after he was outed as transgender by his colleagues. Currently, 50 percent of LGBT Americans live in states where they are at risk of being fired, denied housing or refused service because of who they are or whom they love.
HRC’s Business Coalition for the Equality Act launch comes after new polling released by the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) found that nationally, support for a bill like the Equality Act topped 70 percent, which includes a majority of Democrats, Republicans and Independents. The groundbreaking report from PRRI included 42,000 interviews in 50 states and found support for the Equality Act in all 50 states.
Republican Senator Mark Kirk (IL) and Representative Bob Dold (IL) recently signed on as co-sponsors of the Equality Act, which was introduced last year by Senators Jeff Merkley (OR), Tammy Baldwin (WI) and Cory Booker (NJ); and Representatives David Cicilline (RI) and John Lewis (GA).
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