FYI - California requiring all public schools to teach LGBTQ history - video

LGBTQ civil rights to be added to Maryland curriculum; Kristin Fisher reports.

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FYI - California governor signs bill requiring medication for abortion at public colleges

The College Student Right to Access Act requires that public colleges in California -- the University of California and California State University systems -- that have student health centers on campus also make available medication abortion.

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RUSSIA: Jehovah's Witness criminal cases - list

A total of 237 Jehovah's Witnesses are now believed to be facing criminal prosecution under the Extremism Law for exercising their freedom of religion and belief, as raids, arrests, and interrogations continue across Russia. Another eight have already been convicted.

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Mandatory Bible reading in schools could violate Constitution – lawyer

Making Bible reading mandatory in all public elementary and secondary schools will be a violation of the Constitution, an education advocate on Friday said.

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Conscientious objectors banned from leaving

Three Jehovah's Witnesses returning to Transdniester to visit family were called up for military service in May, and banned from leaving. "I've been living with this uncertainty for nearly half a year, unable to leave, work or relax,"

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FYI - Transgender people and suicide

Trans people are more at risk of suicide than heterosexual people and lesbian, gay, and bisexual people. Studies and surveys have shown many transgender people have thought about and attempted suicide

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The Jehovah's Witness, Kenya, China connection.

Earlier this year, An, a young Chinese professional living in Nairobi, heard a knock at the door. She was expec­ting no one. She had moved in a couple of months earlier, and none of her friends would visit unannounced.

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Pediatrics 2000 Sued by EEOC for Firing Employee Who Requested Religious Accommodation

"[T]his is your last day of employment. We can't tolerate religious privileges from anyone."

Pediatrics 2000, which provides pediatric health services at two locations in Manhattan, unlawfully fired an employee who asked to be excused from attending a company party as a religious accommodation

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Missionaries Deported to “Resist Religious Infiltration”

Jehovah’s Witnesses are also among the targeted groups. In mid-May, the police in a city of the southeastern province of Jiangxi raided an apartment rented by a South Korean Jehovah’s Witnesses missionary.

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Burglars ram open Jehovah's Witness Hall in Walsall

Burglars rammed a van through the gates of a Jehovah's Witness Hall in Walsall then smashed their way into the building.

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