SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A former Missouri State University graduate student says in a federal lawsuit that the school kicked him out of a master's program three years after he said counseling gay couples violated his religious beliefs.
Andrew Cash said he was removed from the master's counseling program at Missouri State in 2014 after telling a professor in 2011 he would not counsel gay couples. Cash started the program in 2007.
LONDON (AP) — President Barack Obama called Friday for the overturning of a North Carolina law that requires transgender people to use public bathrooms and locker rooms that conform to their gender at birth.
Obama criticized that law and others targeting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people during a news briefing Friday in London. The issue of mandates dealing with access to sex-segregated public facilities has raised fears for the safety of girls and young women as well as privacy concerns.
