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.