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In 1795, Indiana as part of the Northwest Territory passed the "buggery" law, which punished male sodomy with death.In 1807, the Indiana Territory enacted a criminal code which included a sodomy provision, eliminating the gender-specifics (meaning it would be applicable to both heterosexual and homosexual conduct), reducing the penalty to one to five years' imprisonment, a fine of 100 to 500 ...
Mississippi was the only U.S. state to not have legal joint adoption rights for LGBT couples; the only other jurisdictions under U.S. sovereignty where this is the case are American Samoa and some Native American tribal nations. [75] Mississippi passed a state law in 2000 which explicitly prohibited same-sex couples from joint adoption.
USA Today afterwards stated that in addition to LGBTQ employment discrimination, "The court's ruling is likely to have a sweeping impact on federal civil rights laws barring sex discrimination in education, health care, housing and financial credit." [378] On June 30, 2023, the Supreme Court ruled by a 6–3 vote in 303 Creative LLC v.
GOP lawmakers in over 30 states have introduced or passed bills to restrict or regulate diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, according to an NBC News analysis.
The first attempt to restrict gay and lesbian rights through a state wide ballot measure occurred in 1978 in California. [2] While the measure failed, the late-1980s and early 1990s saw a resurgence in ballot initiatives, culminating in proposed state constitutional amendments in Oregon and Colorado not only to repeal existing anti-discrimination ordinances but to proactively prohibit the ...
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, a Democrat, signed a law last week that includes a mandate for the state’s public schools to teach LGBTQ history, as red and blue states continue to diverge on ...
Adoption of marriage amendments over time. Prior to the Supreme Court's decision in Obergefell v.Hodges (2015), U.S. state constitutional amendments banning same-sex unions of several different types passed, banning legal recognition of same-sex unions in U.S. state constitutions, referred to by proponents as "defense of marriage amendments" or "marriage protection amendments."
Senate Bill 181 requires the attorney general to enforce Indiana’s law banning “sanctuary city” ordinances, which restrict local cooperation with federal immigration authorities.