RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on a lawsuit challenging North Carolina's new law halting Charlotte's anti-discrimination rules and directing transgender students to use the restroom aligned with their biological sex (all times local):
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Gay-rights leaders and civil liberties groups aren't giving up after North Carolina legislators and Gov. Pat McCrory overturned Charlotte's anti-discrimination ordinance and stopped other local governments from passing similar regulations.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A coalition of youth-oriented groups is calling on the nation's governors to reject measures it says are harmful to young transgender Americans.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, who spent five days in jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, said she prayed for those who disagreed with her and feels the pace of social change has "awakened" Christians across the country.
A county clerk in Kentucky was sentenced to jail time for not granting marriage licenses to same sex couples. Kim Davis cited her personal religious beliefs, saying that she did not want to sign her name to a document that granted permission for something she does not condone.