VICTIMS

of Discrimination

· Scott Brockie, a Canadian printer, refused to print letterhead and business cards for a gay and lesbian activist organization, and was found guilty of discrimination, fined $5,000, and ordered to print the organization’s materials. Additionally, he was left with large court costs. http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/apr/04041604.html

· Elaine Huguenin, a New Mexico photographer, was fined $6,600 for refusing on religious grounds to

photograph a lesbian commitment ceremony.   http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/apr/04041604.html

· Starfish Creative Invitations, a Seattle printer was forced to apologize and promise never again to refuse to print “wedding” invitations for the Canadian wedding ceremony for two men.  http://www.aclu.org/lgbt/relationships/11909prs20040212.html

· Tim Bono in Arlington, Virginia was ordered under non-discrimination laws to make copies of homosexual advocacy films or to pay someone else to make copies.  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/26/AR2006052601943.html

· Boy Scouts were evicted from a Philadelphia municipal building where they resided nearly rent free since 1928.  They resisted the city’s request to change their policy to preserve their culture, protecting the right of private organizations to remain exclusive and defending traditions like requiring members to swear an oath of duty to God and prohibiting membership by anyone who is openly homosexual. 
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/06/us/06scouts.html

· Catholic Charities in Boston ended their adoption work, because the state “nondiscrimination” law required that they place children with practicing homosexual couples. Both of these  http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/03/11/catholic_charities_stuns_state_ends_adoptions/   http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/191kgwgh.asp

· Pastor Ake Green, a Swedish minister was sentenced to jail for a sermon delivered from his pulpit. 
http://www.akegreen.org/  http://www.akegreen.org/en-2-left/en-2-9.htm

· Triangle Foundation: no “discrimination” in Michigan against individuals involved in homosexual behavior.

· Lansing Health Club threatened when tansgender Naomi Snyder claimed sex discrimination for being barred from club’s locker rooms.  
 http://www.afamichigan.org/2006/11/14/urge-lansing-city-council-to-reject-discriminatory-gay-rights/

· The Saskatoon Star-Phoenix newspaper was ordered by the Saskatchewan Human Rights Tribunal to pay three homosexual men $1,500 each after the newspaper agreed to run an ad that featured Bible verses critical of homosexual behavior.  http://www.realwomenca.com/archives/newsletter/2001_july_august/articles_7.html

· Belgian Cardinal Gustaaf Joos to be sued for remarks about homosexuality.  http://billandkent.com/blog/2004/01/cardinal-90-percent-of-gays-ar.html

· Cardinal Antonio Maria Rouco Varela of Madrid was sued in his native Spain by a homosexual activist group for preaching against homosexuality in a homily on the Feast of the Holy Family. 
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/features/index.cfm?recnum=26903&repos=4&subrepos=1&searchid=411966 
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,grossbild-1118007-540095,00.html

· UK Anglican Bishop fined £47,345 and set for “re-education” in gay employment case. 
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/feb/08021104.html

 · Rt Rev Dr Peter Forster, the Bishop of Chester, infuriated homosexuals both in and out of the Church of England when he said that they could and should seek medical help.  
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-201684/Police-quiz-bishop-gay-comments.html      
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3255461.stm

 · Spectrum Health in Grand Rapids was investigated when women complain doctor asserted “marriage” is between one man and one woman.   
http://blog.mlive.com/grpress/2008/06/samesex_couple_complain_about.html 

· San Raphael parents irked at school policy in keeping with state law that transgendered junior high  students can use boys' or girls' restrooms. 
http://www.marinij.com/marinnews/ci_11177707

· Parents of elementary school children outraged over transgender teacher. 
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,438442,00.html

 · Minneapolis teacher Carla Cruzan, loses a federal court lawsuit to keep an adult male school employee cross-dresser from using the women's bathroom.  
http://www.aclu.org/lgbt/transgender/11837prs20020620.html

 · Landmark ruling in the first reported decision in case brought by a transgender student, that a middle school may not prohibit student from expressing gender identity. 
http://www.glad.org/work/cases/pat-doe-v-yunits/

 · Boy wants to return to school as a girl   
http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=85989

 · Spanish Supreme Court: Children can be compelled to receive homosexual indoctrination against parents’ wishes.  
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/jan/09012901.html

 · Massachusetts approves "female" driver's licenses for men who have not had sex-change surgery                        
…suppose one of them shows up in the shower at a women's health club in Kalamazoo? 
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/09a/rmv_trans/rmv-letter_012109.pdf

· Children as young as five should be taught to understand the pleasures of gay sex, according to leaders of a taxpayer-funded education project. 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1056415/Teach-pleasure-gay-sex-children-young-say-researchers.html?Gay

 · Detective Richard Stern, a fifteen year veteran and president of the Ann Arbor police officers union, was fired after being accused of violating that city’s “sexual orientation” ordinance.  He “was accused of saying that one of the candidates had a gay-rights agenda,” according to Between the Lines, a Detroit homosexual advocacy newsmagazine.  

· The Ann Arbor city council banned donations to the United Way through city employees’ payroll deduction plan because the United Way supported local Boy Scout troops, which refused to allow adult homosexuals to take 13-year old boys on overnight camping trips.  http://www.cwfa.org/articles/566/CFI/cfreport/index.htm

 · Chicago county officials barred the Salvation Army from delivering services to low-income residents, because “the county's ordinance banning employment discrimination against gays and lesbians bars it from contracting with the Salvation Army,” a traditional Christian denomination whose religious doctrine teaches that homosexual behavior is a sin.   
http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?%20AID=2529
http://www.cultureandfamily.org/articledisplay.asp?id=336&department=CFI&categoryid=cfreport

 · Bill Scharffe, director of bylaws and policy services for the Michigan Association of School Boards, advised local districts not to include the term ‘sexual orientation’ in their anti-harassment policies.  He noted that neither federal nor state civil rights laws consider people of a particular sexual orientation a protected class, and added that literal interpretation of ‘sexual orientation’ could include people who gravitate toward any sort of sexual activity, including that with animals, children and corpses.”  The Oakland Press - March 2005 
http://www.afamichigan.org/2008/03/24/help-stop-trojan-horse-bullying-legislation/

 · Transgender janitor shocks elementary school parents at the Clara Barton Elementary School in Oxford, Massachusetts at the beginning of the 08 school year. 
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Education/Default.aspx?id=420198

 · Queens landlord sued by ACLU over claim that transgender people are not entitled to use bathrooms, or as he said, because of “men who think they're women using the women's bathrooms.”  When asked whether he was referring to transgendered clients, the landlord replied, "I don't care what they are. They can't use the wrong restrooms." 
http://www.aclu.org/lgbt/transgender/11892prs20030626.html  http://www.aclu.org/lgbt/transgender/12340prs20010626.html

· A federal judge ruled that the Library of Congress illegally discriminated against a Special Forces veteran when he was denied a job after announcing his intention to transition from male to female. 
http://www.aclu.org/lgbt/transgender/36872prs20080919.html    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/01/AR2005060101777.html

 · Old Dominion Freight Lines was sued for firing a truck driver for impersonating a female after he said that he was transitioning from male to female.  In a prior ruling the EEOC found that Old Dominion had discriminated based on sex and sex stereotyping. 
http://www.aclu.org/lgbt/transgender/35706prs20080618.html
 

· The Federal Bureau of Prisons was urged by the ACLU to place a male transgender prisoner in a women’s detention center. 
http://www.aclu.org/lgbt/transgender/27795res20061222.html

 · Illinois Department of Vital Records was sued by the ACLU because of refusal to change the gender marker on the birth certificates of two transgender men because they had surgery outside of the United States by a non-U.S. licensed physician.  
http://blog.aclu.org/2009/01/28/new-transgender-rights-case-in-illinois/http:/blog.aclu.org/2009/01/28/new-transgender-rights-case-in-illinois/

 · The principal at a Memphis, TN high school was reprimanded for posting the names of two boys in a homosexual relationship on a list on her desk of students believed to be couples, because revealing their relationship to their parents and others violated the student’s constitutional right to freedom of association. 
http:/www.aclu.org/lgbt/youth/35114res20080429.html

 · A Florida high school was forced to allow expressions of support for “gay rights” and was permanently  enjoined from suppressing student’s First Amendment rights.  What about the first amendment rights of people who disagree? 
www.aclu.org/lgbt/youth/33859res20080131.html

 · A lawsuit was filed challenging a State of Wisconsin law which denied hormone therapy to two imprisoned transgendered men who had not had sex-reassignment surgery. 
http://www.aclu.org/lgbt/transgender/24920res20060127.html

 · In May, 2008 the California Supreme Court ruled that the state may no longer exclude same-sex couples from marriage.  Voters passed Prop 8 in November affirming traditional marriage, but a lawsuit was filed challenging its validity.  
http://www.aclu.org/lgbt/relationships/38235prs20090105.html     

 · H&R Block was threatened by the ACLU to change its online system to accommodate same-sex civil unions with filing their taxes.  
http://www.aclu.org/lgbt/relationships/34632res20080325.html

 · The State of Wisconsin was sued on behalf of six lesbian employees and their partners seeking domestic partner health insurance and family leave benefits, which the state provided only to employees and their spouses.  The lawsuit charged that it violated the state constitution’s equal protection guarantee to block lesbian and gay employees from access to the same benefits.
http://www.aclu.org/lgbt/relationships/12231res20050420.html

 · The State of New Mexico was sued because their domestic partner benefits do not extend into retirement as do employees’ and spouses’. 
http://www.aclu.org/lgbt/relationships/28241res20070205.html

 · A New York judge’s ruling that rejected a transgender woman’s application for a legal name change was about to be appealed by the ACLU, when the woman, instead, moved to another jurisdiction.  The judge demanded that Sarah/Evan Rockefeller provide “medical evidence” of sex reassignment surgery, which would have been the reason for the appeal.  The ACLU says that granting name change petitions for transgender people is routine in most courts across the U.S. 
http://www.aclu.org/lgbt/transgender/27710res20061213.html   
http://www.aclu.org/lgbt/transgender/27707res20061215.html

 · The West Virginia Supreme Court awarded custody of a four-year old boy, after the death of his mother, to her lesbian partner, rather than to his grandparents, who sought custody. 
http://www.aclu.org/lgbt/parenting/12147res20050301.html

 · Florida Conservatives Fight for Repeal of Transgender Restroom Rule.  The repeal measure would prevent the commission from adding protections beyond what the state requires: race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, disability and marital status. 
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,478924,00.html  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExGBlXKRrYs