Movement Advancement Project

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t.co

Dozens of anti-LGBT bills proposed this year target kids and families

There are bills that propose allowing student clubs to discriminate and still receive school funds, bills that allow county clerks to opt out of issuing marriage licenses to couples, bills that deny adoption and foster care to same-sex couples, and bills that make it legal for florists and bakers to refuse supplying a gay wedding.

Not every family looks the same but we all have one thing in common: we put the needs of our kids first

[Movement Advancement Project]

NEW RESOURCES: As states like Alabama, Texas, and Oklahoma consider adoption discrimination legislation like SB 149 that passed in South Dakota on Friday, MAP has released new resources about these harmful laws that create a license to discriminate with taxpayer funds, hurting children and depriving them of forever homes. #licensetodiscriminate #SB149

Learn more: http://lgbtmap.org/adoption

[Movement Advancement Project]

NEW RESOURCE: License to Discriminate: South Dakota’s Senate Bill 149

Click here (http://lgbtmap.org/file/policy-brief-south-dakota-sb-149.pdf) to read more about #SB149. Follow @ACLUSD on twitter or go to https://www.aclusd.org/ for more info.

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rapidcityjournal.com

South Dakota governor mum on religious adoption protections

South Dakota's Republican governor isn't saying whether he'll sign a measure aimed at protecting faith-based organizations that refuse to place children with gay couples or other arrangements contrary to their

HANNAH WEIKEL Associated Press

The freedom of religion doesn’t give you the right to discriminate. These bills are doing exactly that.