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If you are not aware of "conversion therapy," the odious idea behind it is to push lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender young people to change their sexual orientation. It treats any sexual orientation other than heterosexuality as a disease to be cured. It is...
The sad incidents in Ferguson, Baltimore, Cleveland, New York City and elsewhere have led many to question the actions of law enforcement in using force. Many of those who believe that police use of force is excessive and out of control have called for body cameras as...
According to a 2013 study cited by GLAAD (formerly the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation), 55.5 percent of LGBT students feel unsafe at school because of their sexual orientation. Another 38.7 percent feel unsafe at school because of their gender...
I know. I hear you. If you've read my blogs before, I'm starting to sound like a broken record. I've talked -- it seems to me endlessly -- about the problem we have in America of reconciling a person's personal religious beliefs with public policy. Frankly, it's...
I've been waiting for this moment - the moment I'm watching on CNN right now, on July 9th - to comment on this trinity of issues. Obviously, they're all intimately related with one another, but more importantly, they're all about our changing national character. In my...
New Jersey Civil Rights and School Harassment Trial Lawyer Discusses Kentucky Sheriff's Officer Handcuffing Disabled Boy and ACLU Suit In 2014, a Kentucky sheriff's deputy put handcuffs on two elementary school students with disabilities for "misbehaving" in school. A...
The New Jersey Law Against Discrimination is a civil rights statute that prohibits a wide range of discrimination, including employment discrimination based on gender identity or expression, gender role and transgender status. The law is an attempt to protect some of...
Mark Twain, lauding the effectiveness of a short communication over a long one, once joked "I didn't have the time to write you a short letter, so I wrote you a long one instead." When blogging about the important civil justice issues we cover in this blog, I've tried...
Or...Why I'm still committed to Garden State Equality now that we've won the Equal Marriage Rights Battle "Equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air; we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it." - Maya AngelouWhy would a straight person...
Just when we're starting to really turn the corner on LGBTQI issues, now a Priest is being fired for supporting an LGBTQI advocacy group.But how can this be? Doesn't the Catholic religion preach that marriage should be between a man and a woman ONLY? Sure, we love the...
