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كما تعلمون جميعًا، تلعب المحاكم، بصفتها السلطة الثالثة المستقلة للحكومة، دورًا محوريًا في حماية حقوق جميع المواطنين، وخاصةً حماية الأقليات غير المحبوبة مما يُسمى "استبداد الأغلبية". تُؤدي منظمة GLAD جزءًا كبيرًا من عملها في المحاكم، بما في ذلك المحكمة العليا للولايات المتحدة، حيث دافعنا عن المساواة في الزواج، وحقوق المصابين بفيروس نقص المناعة البشرية، وحقوق آباء وأمهات مجتمع الميم، والأهم من ذلك، حق مجتمع الميم والمصابين بفيروس نقص المناعة البشرية في معاملة متساوية.

نتيجةً لذلك، يجب علينا أيضًا النضال من أجل حماية نزاهة المحاكم والدفاع عنها، والمساعدة في ضمان بقائها مفتوحة للجميع على قدم المساواة. يجب أن يحظى كل متقاضٍ بمحاكمة عادلة ونزيهة، واثقًا من التزام القضاة الذين يمثلون أمامهم بسيادة القانون، بما في ذلك احترام ضمانات الدستور للحرية والكرامة والحماية المتساوية للجميع.

هذا أمرٌ بالغ الأهمية في المحكمة العليا للولايات المتحدة، المُفسِّر النهائي لمعنى القوانين الفيدرالية ودستورنا الفيدرالي. ولهذا السبب، ندعو مجلس الشيوخ إلى التدقيق بعناية في القاضي نيل غورسوتش، مُرشَّح الرئيس ترامب للمحكمة العليا، لتحديد مدى استعداده الحقيقي لحماية الضمانات الحيوية للجميع.

هنا في GLAD، لدينا مخاوف جدية بشأن ما إذا كان القاضي جورسوتش يفي بهذا المعيار. درولي ضد باتون، 601 فيد. تقريبًا 632 (10ذ في قضية كراولي ضد هيومن رايتس ووتش (دائرة 2015)، انضم القاضي جورسوتش إلى رأي رفض ادعاءات سجينة متحولة جنسياً، والتي أكدت أن حقوقها الدستورية قد انتهكت عندما بدأ مسؤولو السجن في إعطائها العلاج الهرموني وأوقفوه عدة مرات على مدى 27 عامًا، وقدموا لها حاليًا جرعة غير كافية.

استنادًا إلى قرارٍ صدر قبل ثلاثين عامًا، رفض هؤلاء القضاة - في عام ٢٠١٥ - ببساطة الاعتراف بحقّ السجناء المصابين باضطراب الهوية الجنسية في العلاج الهرموني. وفيما يتعلق بمطالباتها بالحماية المتساوية، فيما يتعلق بالملابس وسكنها في منشأةٍ للرجال فقط، أعلنت المحكمة بوقاحة أن إدارة السجن تصرفت بعقلانية، وأن "المدعية المتحولة جنسيًا" ليست جزءًا من فئةٍ محميةٍ يحق لها تدقيقٌ مُشددٌ من قِبَل محكمة الولاية.

ونحن نشعر بالقلق أيضًا بشأن الحرية الدينية وكيف يمكن الادعاء بأن الادعاءات الجديدة المتعلقة بالممارسة الحرة للدين يمكن أن تلحق ضررًا كبيرًا بمجتمع المثليين والنساء - وهو ما يتعارض مع القانون الراسخ الذي يحترم المعتقدات الدينية للمواطنين بشكل صحيح طالما أنها لا تسبب ضررًا للآخرين.

في الآن الشهيرة (أو سيئة السمعة) هوبي لوبي في قضيةٍ ما، قضت المحكمة العليا بأنه يحق لشركةٍ ذات ملكيةٍ محدودةٍ الادعاء بأن معتقداتها الدينية تُعفيها من جزءٍ من متطلبات قانون الرعاية الصحية الميسرة المتعلقة بتغطية وسائل منع الحمل. قبل المحكمة العليا، كانت هذه القضية معروضةً على محكمة القاضي جورسوتش، التي حكمت لصالح الشركة.  شركة Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. ضد سيبيليوس، 723 ف.3د 1114 (10ذ دائرة الاستئناف (2013). هناك، كتب القاضي جورسوتش رأيًا متوافقًا يُجادل فيه أساسًا بأنه لا يجوز للمحكمة الطعن في معتقد شخص ما بأن فعلًا معينًا يجعله متواطئًا في سلوك لا يتسامح معه، وبالتالي يُبرر أفعاله. تخيّل كيف يمكن لهذا المفهوم المُرن للتواطؤ (مع الأخذ في الاعتبار أن المنظمات الدينية دأبت على ادعاء أن مجرد تقديمها ورقةً إلى الحكومة تُشير إلى مطالبتها بحقها في الإعفاء من قانون الرعاية الميسرة لتغطية وسائل منع الحمل يُعدّ تواطؤًا في الإثم) أن يؤثر على مجتمع الميم، على سبيل المثال، في تقديم أي نوع من الخدمات لأفراد من مجتمع الميم.

على نطاق أوسع، فإن العديد من الضمانات القانونية المهمة - مثل الحق في استخدام وسائل منع الحمل، والإجهاض، وممارسة العلاقة الحميمة، والزواج الشرعي من الشخص الذي تُحبه - تستند إلى مفاهيم الخصوصية والاستقلالية وكرامة الشخص، والتي قضت المحكمة العليا بأنها محمية بالدستور - بموجب مبدأ يُسمى الإجراءات القانونية الواجبة. حسنًا، أبدى القاضي غورسوتش تشككًا في هذا المجال القانوني برمته.  انظر قضية براودر ضد مدينة ألبوكيركي، 787 ف.3د 1076، 1078 (10ذ دائرة 2015). وفي هذا المجال القانوني نفسه، كتب بإسهاب عن الانتحار بمساعدة الغير والقتل الرحيم، مجادلًا بأنه يمكن حظرهما كأفعال "تنطوي، بحكم التعريف، على اعتداء متعمد على جوهر الحياة"، وهو أمر مقدس. نيل م. جورسوتش، الحق في الانتحار بمساعدة الغير والقتل الرحيم، 23 Harv. JL & Pub. Pol'y 599، 701 (1999-2000).

في سياقٍ ذي صلة، في منتصف عام ٢٠١٥، سعى حاكم ولاية يوتا إلى قطع جميع التمويل الفيدرالي الذي كان يمر عبر الولاية إلى منظمة تنظيم الأسرة لإدارة برامج معينة في الولاية. رفعت المنظمة دعوى قضائية، وفي النهاية، منحت هيئة من ثلاثة قضاة في محكمة الاستئناف الأمريكية للدائرة العاشرة المنظمة أمرًا قضائيًا أوليًا يمنع الحاكم من قطع التمويل. ثم رفضت الدائرة العاشرة بكامل هيئتها إعادة النظر في القضية. جمعية تنظيم الأسرة في ولاية يوتا ضد هربرت، 839 ف.3د 1301 (10ذ (دائرة 2016). عارض القاضي جورسوتش القرار، بحجة أن إعادة النظر كانت ضرورية للسماح للحاكم بقطع الأموال.  بطاقة تعريف. في الساعة 1307.

أخيرًا، في عام ٢٠٠٥، قبل أن يصبح قاضيًا، كتب السيد جورسوتش مقالًا انتقد فيه "الليبراليين" ووصفهم بأنهم "متغطرسون في قاعة المحكمة"، ساعيين إلى اكتساب الحقوق والحفاظ عليها في المحكمة بدلًا من الحصول عليها من الناخبين والمسؤولين المنتخبين. ومن أمثلته المساواة في الزواج (لم يمضِ وقت طويل على إنشاء GLAD). جودريدج قرار في ماساتشوستس، الانتحار بمساعدة الغير، وقسائم التعليم. أين وممن سمعنا صرخة الشكوى من قبل؟

وهذا يثير تساؤلات مثيرة للقلق حول مدى استعداد القاضي جورسوتش للقيام بالعمل المهم الذي تقوم به المحاكم في حماية الحقوق الأساسية للناس.

ويحتاج مجلس الشيوخ إلى البحث بعمق في سجل هذا القاضي وكتاباته لمعرفة ما إذا كان يمكن الثقة به في هذا المنصب الرفيع ذي الأهمية القصوى لنا جميعًا.

حيث يوجد هذا القدر من الدخان، هل من المحتمل أن يكون هناك حريق؟

مدونة

GLAD is preparing to fight like hell.

Earlier this week, we saw a leaked draft of a possible Trump administration executive order on “Religious Freedom.” The order targets LGBTQ people, eviscerates women’s healthcare, privileges one religious viewpoint, and offers tax incentives to those who promote it.

It is nothing short of a far-reaching license to discriminate.

Freedom of religion is a cherished and fundamental right in the US, and it is rightly protected in the First Amendment of our Constitution. But that freedom does not include the right to discriminate.

Make no mistake: if this order is signed and its directives are allowed to stand, people will get hurt.

GLAD’s lawyers saw this coming, and are already strategizing about how to fight it.

We stand ready to go to court to protect the rights of LGBTQ people and our families, friends, and allies who would be hurt by this order.

Are you with us?

We know so many people of faith agree that freedom means freedom for all – not freedom to discriminate. But we have all seen the hateful tenor of the current administration and their campaign of divisiveness.

If a final executive order anything like this draft is signed, we will be ready to fight for all our lives, and all our freedom. But we need your help.

GLAD’s lawyers have a 40-year track record of defending and advancing equal justice under the law, from transgender rights, to marriage equality, to ensuring those with HIV can get the healthcare they need. They are strategic, smart, and experienced – and they are fired up.

We won’t give in to divisiveness – and we won’t go back. Give now to ensure that we can keep our laws on the right side of justice and true freedom for all. 

أخبار

As legal organizations dedicated to securing the freedom and equality of LGBT persons through the courts, we call on the President to nominate, and the Senate to confirm, a new Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States who has a demonstrated commitment to the legal equality of the full diversity of LGBT people and their families, and who will honor past Supreme Court decisions recognizing that equality.

Our organizations have represented the plaintiffs in many cases before the Supreme Court that have firmly established the principle over the past 20 years that our Constitution requires equal treatment of LGBT persons under the law, including the freedom to marry.

Further, as organizations dedicated more broadly to our democracy’s fundamental promises of justice and equality, we call on the Senate to reject any nominee to the Court who does not clearly affirm a commitment to upholding the Constitution’s guarantees of liberty and equal protection for all Americans.

Through strategic litigation, public policy advocacy, and education, GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders works in New England and nationally to create a just society free of discrimination based on gender identity and expression, HIV status, and sexual orientation. www.gladlaw.org

Lambda Legal is a national organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and those with HIV through impact litigation, education and public policy work. www.lambdalegal.org

NCLR is a national legal organization committed to advancing the civil and human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their families through litigation, legislation, policy, and public education. www.nclrights.org

أخبار

The President does not get to claim support for LGBTQ people simply by not rolling back an existing order on explicit non-discrimination protections. The records of those the President has surrounded himself with and appointed to his cabinet, from Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions to Secretary of Education nominee Betsy DeVos, paint a different picture of where the administration stands on LGBTQ equality.

Furthermore, LGBTQ people are in every community, and we stand in solidarity with other marginalized groups, including immigrants, Muslims, women, and people of color who have already been the targets of attack by this administration. We will stay vigilant against discrimination on all fronts, and we will not be divided.

مدونة

When I found out the Women’s March on Washington was on a Saturday, I had an important choice to make.

Like many other Jews, I don’t do work on Shabbat. I love that the practice of Shabbat is modeled on the divine’s day of rest after the creation of a perfect world. So once a week we are given the opportunity to live as if the world is flawless. As if we, through our actions of the past week, have worked hard enough to make the world whole and for one day we are not obligated to labor or make change. We are provided a metaphorical deep breath and chance to reflect on all the good around us.

But Judaism also gives us the principle of pikuach nefesh, the idea that the preservation of human life overrules nearly any other religious consideration. When someone is under immediate threat, our commandments not to act become irrelevant.

So I marched.

The current political situation and the threat of our new administration’s actions is a real and clear threat to people’s lives. It’s not theoretical or a hysterically imagined future. And it is at odds with our Jewish values.

I’m taking action because an administration came to power that has already shown itself not only to believe that some people are more human or more deserving than other people, but have already started to create policy based on those discriminatory beliefs—policies that will cost people their livelihoods, their health and their lives.

The Torah insists that we maintain the dignity of the poor and work to provide them with a way out of poverty. But President Trump’s administration has promised tax cuts that would reduce federal income by over $6 trillion over the next decade, and experts say that creating his “balanced” budget will plunge more people into poverty: Medicaid will shrink, the Children’s Health Insurance Program will get smaller, the supplemental nutrition assistance program will be cut, housing and energy assistance for the poor will decrease, and more.

Our values tell us we are all created in the image of God and we must value and protect all people, not just those like us. But President Trump has openly mocked a reporter with a disability that impairs the movement of his arms. He removed a webpage from whitehouse.gov that highlighted the government’s commitment to giving people with disabilities access to education and employment. The proposed head of Housing and Urban Development thinks providing fair housing to transgender people is “special treatment.”

President Trump has pledged to force Muslims to register and has implicitly incited nationwide violence against Islamic communities. Steve Bannon, a senior counselor to the president, was executive chairman of Breitbart, a news site that Bannon dubbed the “home of the alt-right” ― a synonym for white supremacists and neo-Nazis. And Jeff Sessions, the current pick for U.S. attorney general, has been known to make racist statements and policies and joked that he hadn’t joined the KKK “because members of the group smoked marijuana.”

Rabbi Sharon Brous said: “Our children will one day ask us: Where were you when our country was thrust into a lion’s den of demagoguery and division? We will say: I stood with love. I stood with hope. I stood with sisters and brothers of all religions and races and genders and sexualities to insist that we will emerge from the darkness and bask in the brilliance of an America that honors the infinite worth of all of God’s children.”

I didn’t march, as some would accuse, just because “my candidate lost.” I’m taking action because an administration came to power that has already shown itself not only to believe that some people are more human or more deserving than other people, but have already started to create policy based on those discriminatory beliefs—policies that will cost people their livelihoods, their health and their lives.

After marching in Selma, Ala., with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel said, “I felt my feet were praying.” I understand that feeling. Marching on Shabbat—fighting for the rights and dignity of all people—felt, to me, like the greatest way to recognize the divine spark in each of us and to recognize our holy obligation to save lives.

The march has spurred my commitment to take one action every day to combat the bigotry, hatred and life-threatening policies we are seeing in our highest levels of government: calling an elected official, writing to a news outlet that is not reporting the truth, making a donation to a critical issue, having a hard conversation with someone who doesn’t think voting matters.

At the Women’s March on Washington, Rabbi Sharon Brous said: “Our children will one day ask us: Where were you when our country was thrust into a lion’s den of demagoguery and division? We will say: I stood with love. I stood with hope. I stood with sisters and brothers of all religions and races and genders and sexualities to insist that we will emerge from the darkness and bask in the brilliance of an America that honors the infinite worth of all of God’s children.”

My Judaism is rooted in the value of justice. And I am committed to raising my children in a Jewish community and a larger world that teaches us to care for each other and see ourselves in the strangers around us. But I know that for that world to exist—for that Jewish community to be real—it is my responsibility to stand up, speak out and create the reality I want to see.

مدونة

While no one can do everything, everyone must do something.

My husband Adam’s great-grandfather owned a chocolate factory in Germany in the early 20th century. He travelled frequently, and gained a sophisticated perspective on what was happening in his own country. He came to believe that it wasn’t normal and that it was not safe for him, his wife and his child, who were Jewish. They escaped to Argentina, where Adam’s grandmother and mother grew up. Most of the rest of their family did not survive World War II. A man holding a sign at a rally reading We are all one justice movement Adam’s family history has always made him feel responsible to have an awareness of injustice, prejudice, and violence in the world. It has spurred him to humanitarian action as a doctor. One of his favorite quotes, by Dostoevsky, is engraved in the entry hall of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum in Geneva:
Everyone is responsible to everyone for everything.
I’ve thought about this quote a lot post-election, when people of good faith are concerned about our country’s future, and about the most vulnerable people among us. Yet, the scope and scale of what lies ahead can feel overwhelming. How much activism is enough? How much should we give? What can we possibly do that is useful? It is easy – and understandable – to feel powerless right now. But we do have power, and we’re obliged to resist. We can rest and restore when we need to – but we cannot retreat. To use another favorite quote of Adam’s, this time by Rabbi Tarfon:
It is not your responsibility to finish the work of perfecting the world, but you are not free to desist from it either.
While no one can do everything, everyone must do something. What is your “something? It helps to look at the tools we have at hand: elections; courts and the law; direct action; persuasion; and philanthropy. Elections matter, and there are elections in our immediate future – mid-term congressional elections, state level elections, and local elections – that will make a difference in our lives. Making our voices heard by voting and communicating with our elected officials is key to our democracy. There are ballot questions that will demand our attention, such as the attempt to repeal the hard-won Massachusetts transgender public accommodations bill in 2018. Courts have tremendous power to protect us and advance our rights, especially when legislatures are failing. Congress may be unlikely to pass the Equality Act, but we can continue to make progress in federal court – and in many state courts. Who sits on our courts matters, and we cannot stand by silently as they are packed with judges who do not interpret our laws and our Constitution to extend equal justice for all. There is a direct action through line from the suffragists chaining themselves to the White House fence, to Selma, ACT UP, and Black Lives Matter. Direct action can show those targeted they are not alone, as well as push our allies to do the right thing when there are competing forces. None of these tools are effective without public persuasion. It is only when we do the hard work of having face-to-face, nonjudgmental, empathetic conversations with reasonable people who disagree, that we help perfect our society. Finally, philanthropy is the fuel that allows non-profit organizations like GLAD to run at full speed. Adam and I recently reached our goal of giving 10% of our income to organizations whose missions and work we support, inspired by the Jewish concept of tithing. It wasn’t easy, it took some time, and it was a priority. These times call on all of us to determine what we are able to give to support the many organizations on the front lines in the fight ahead. We can’t do everything, but every one of us can do something. This is the way we take care of each other, and guard our future. Choose your something.

أخبار

BOSTON, January 23, 2017 — Today, notice will be provided to class members in a $7.5 million settlement that has been reached with Walmart and Sam’s Club (together “Walmart”) in a class action lawsuit that challenged the lack of health insurance benefits for the same-sex spouses of associates between January 1, 2011 and December 31, 2013 (the “Settlement Class Period”). To receive payments under the Settlement, Settlement Class Members must file claims with the Settlement Administrator no later than March 20, 2017.

On December 22, 2016, the District Court presiding over the class action lawsuit granted preliminary approval of the Settlement, and directed the parties to send notice to Settlement Class Members so that they can learn about the Settlement and have the opportunity to submit claims to receive payments.

Walmart voluntarily began making the same Health Insurance benefits that it provides to opposite-sex spouses of its associates available to same-sex spouses of its associates as of January 1, 2014. Walmart denies it did anything wrong. The Court did not decide in favor of Plaintiff or Walmart. Instead, both sides agreed to a settlement.

“Settlement Class Members” include those individuals who, during the January 1, 2011 to December 31, 2013 Settlement Class Period, (1) worked at Walmart or Sam’s Club in the United States or Puerto Rico; (2) were legally married to a same-sex spouse; and (3) would have been eligible for spousal Health Insurance Benefits from Walmart or Sam’s Club but for the limitation on providing spousal Health Insurance Benefits to same-sex spouses.

Under the Settlement, Walmart has agreed to pay $7.5 million into a Settlement Fund. Up to $3.5 million of the Settlement Fund will be used to make payments to Settlement Class Members for certain documented out-of-pocket healthcare and/or health insurance costs incurred by their same-sex spouses during the Settlement Class Period. The remaining Settlement Fund, after deducting court-approved attorneys’ fees and expenses, a service award to the Named Plaintiff, and claims administration costs, will be used to make payments to Settlement Class Members who submit claims calculated based on the number of months they would have been eligible for spousal health insurance benefits during the Settlement Class Period. These “short form claimants” can receive a pro-rata share of the remaining funds based on the number of months they are eligible, up to $5,000 per year or up to $15,000 for the three year period. In addition, Walmart has committed to treating same-sex and opposite-sex spouses equally in providing health insurance benefits so long as to do so is consistent with applicable law.

To get a payment, Settlement Class Members must fill out and send in a Claim Form by March 20, 2017. Claim Forms and complete information about the Settlement are available at www.WalmartSameSexSpouseBenefitsSettlement.com.

If Settlement Class Members do nothing, their rights will be affected but they will not get a Settlement payment. Any Settlement Class Member who does not want to be legally bound by the Settlement must exclude themselves from it by March 20, 2017. Settlement Class Members who do not exclude themselves will not be able to sue or continue to sue Walmart for any legal claim resolved by this Settlement or released by the Settlement Agreement. Settlement Class Members who do not exclude themselves may object and notify the Court that they or their lawyer intends to appear at the Court’s Fairness Hearing. Objections are due March 20, 2017. More information is available at www.WalmartSameSexSpouseBenefitsSettlement.com.

Judge William Young will hold a final approval hearing in this case (Cote v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., No. 15-cv-12945-WGY) at 2:00 p.m. on May 11, 2017 at the John Joseph Moakley U.S. Courthouse, 1 Courthouse Way, Boston, MA 02210. At this hearing, the Court will decide whether to approve: the Settlement; Class Counsel’s request for attorneys’ fees (up to 25% of the Settlement Fund) and costs; and $25,000 as a service award to the Class Representative. Settlement Class Members or their lawyers may appear at the hearing at their own expense.

For more information visit www.WalmartSameSexSpouseBenefitsSettlement.com or call 1-877-241-7543.

أخبار

Today, leading national LGBT advocates issued an urgent call for action on climate change, and announced their strong opposition to President-elect Trump’s nominee for the Environmental Protection Agency. Scott Pruitt’s confirmation hearing was held today before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.

Nation’s Leading LGBT Advocates Call for Action on Climate, Oppose Nominee for Environmental Protection Agency

Every day we work to make life better for our lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth—to help families understand and support them, and to build safe and supportive schools and communities. But we are also deeply concerned about the physical world LGBT young people, and all the nation’s young people, will be inheriting—potentially one with more extreme droughts, dangerous heat waves, destructive floods, deadly storms, frightening diseases, and disappearing coastal communities. If we do not take decisive action now, these changes will gravely threaten our communities’ health, economic security, and their very safety in the years to come—and we are already seeing the effects today, all around the country and the world. No one can look at the decisive science and enormous implication of climate change and say “this is not my issue.”

It is against this backdrop that, advocates for LGBT communities, we must strongly oppose the nomination of Scott Pruitt for Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). As Oklahoma’s Attorney General, Pruitt has worked relentlessly to undermine the EPA’s mission of ensuring clean and safe air and water and protecting workers, consumers, and communities from potentially deadly environmental risks. Pruitt is a die-hard climate change denier who continues to traffic in lies about the science of energy and climate. As the New York Times reported in 2014, Pruitt has regularly allowed energy-industry lobbyists to draft his correspondence to federal officials.

Pruitt also has a long record of active opposition to LGBT people’s dignity and legal equality. He has denounced and tried to resist federal court rulings on the freedom to marry, and is helping spearhead a lawsuit seeking to ensure that transgender workers have no protection from workplace discrimination—yet as head of the EPA he would be responsible for ensuring equal employment opportunity at a major federal agency.

Climate change is likely the most serious issue facing us all in the years ahead and right now. We call on every single member of our communities to commit to civic action to prevent catastrophic climate change. We further call on President-elect Trump to withdraw the nomination of Scott Pruitt, and if he does not, we call on the Senate to reject him.

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Family Equality Council

المدافعون القانونيون عن المثليين ومزدوجي الميل الجنسي ومغايري الهوية الجنسية (GLAD)

المساواة في الهجرة

التحالف الوطني للعدالة السوداء

المركز الوطني للمساواة بين المتحولين جنسياً

المركز الوطني لحقوق المثليات

فرقة العمل الوطنية لمجتمع الميم

National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance

OutServe-SLDN

أخبار

The Senate has a responsibility to consider Session’s record in weighing whether he should be confirmed for this important office. We agree that when they look to his record, particularly regarding people of color, immigrants, LGBTQ people, women and people with disabilities, they must agree he should not.

GLAD has joined The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and a coalition of over 600 national, state and local organizations in a letter expressing strong opposition to the confirmation of Senator Jeff Sessions as Attorney General.

“In our democracy, the Attorney General is charged with enforcing our nation’s laws without prejudice and with an eye toward justice.  And, just as important, the Attorney General has to be seen by the public – every member of the public, from every community – as a fair arbiter of justice.  Unfortunately, there is little in Senator Sessions’ record that demonstrates that he would meet such a standard.”

اقرأ الرسالة.

مدونة

The full, devastating impact of yesterday’s election is yet to be known, but I woke up this morning knowing that, first, we must take care of each other.

This is not business as usual. The rhetoric of racism, misogyny and Islamophobia that we endured during the campaign cannot become policy, and cannot become who we are. All of our collective efforts will be more vital than ever.

  • It will be more vital than ever to have the backs of the most vulnerable in our community, including people of color, youth, transgender people, , religious minorities, immigrants, and people with low incomes.
  • It will be more vital than ever to defend our Constitution and its bedrock promises of equality.
  • It will be more vital than ever to use all the tools at our disposal – litigation, advocacy, and dialogue on the local and national level – to safeguard the gains of the last 50 years, since the beginning of the modern civil rights movements.
  • It will be more vital than ever to reach out to every American of good will to come together as one justice movement..

GLAD is not going anywhere. We are here, and we will continue fighting like hell for all of us.

Our community has been through extremely hard times before, and every time, our community has stepped up – because we are resilient, we are brave, and we are strong. We will continue to move forward, together, to fight for justice for all.

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