2017-05-03

Jonny and Danette discuss surviving the ongoing Midwest floods,
Lavender Graduation at SIU, the Trump Administration executive
order on religious freedom expected to be signed on Thursday,
Chechnya attacks on LGBT community that continue to get worse, a
walkout of staff at Montreat College in NC over marriage equality
discrimination, a Tennessee law that allows discrimination against
LGBTQ people, an Alabama law that supports discrimination in
adoption agencies, why straight men in Wyoming are wearing tutus to
bars, the Equality Bill proposed in the US Senate, the Supreme
Court decision to not take up a case objecting to California's ban
on conversion therapy, a lawsuit against a HS trans wrestler in
Texas dismissed, and a local leter to the editor encouraging
reflexivity and engagement in addressing diversity issues on the
SIU campus.