Fwd: [FAPP] new brief--The current wave of anti-LGBT legislation: Historical context and implications for LGBT health
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From: Sean Cahill <sca...@fenwayhealth.org>
Date: June 17, 2016 at 11:59:20 AM EDT
To: Sean Cahill <sca...@fenwayhealth.org>
Subject: [FAPP] new brief--The current wave of anti-LGBT legislation: Historical context and implications for LGBT health
Reply-To: sca...@fenwayhealth.org
Dear colleagues,
This has been a hard week for all of us. Yesterday we released an issue brief on the latest wave of anti-LGBT bills and laws we have seen introduced (about 200 in firast six months of 2016) and passed, mostly in Southern states. We had originally planned to release this Monday but waited out of respect for those killed in the horrifying terror attack/hate-motivated mass murder in Orlando. Here is a link to the brief:
Key points are:
· These religious exemption laws don’t protect free exercise of religion (the original motivation for the Religious Freedom Restoration Act), but enable individuals and businesses to discriminate and cause harm to third parties (this is from an important analysis Douglas NeJaime and Reva Siegel published in the Yale Law Review last year). Religious freedom doesn’t include the freedom to discriminate against others and cause them harm.
· Bills considered recently in Florida and Michigan, and signed into law in Mississippi and Tennessee, would restrict access to health care for LGBT people and same-sex couples. As such, these laws threaten to undermine all the pro-LGBT work happening in health care right now, with support and leadership from the Obama-Biden Administration, to improve our access to affirming and culturally competent care and reduce LGBT disparities.
· This is the third wave of anti-LGBT legislation and activism, the first involving the repeal of gay rights laws from Boulder in 1974 through the early 2000s, the second involving anti-same-sex marriage laws and amendments from 1995 to 2008.
We also added a postscript in the wake of the Orlando massacre.
Thank you, and take care.
Sean
Sean Cahill, PhD | Director of Health Policy Research
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