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New post shows Arkansas as LGBT rights battleground
The Commercial AppealMemphis
New post shows Arkansas as LGBT rights battleground
By: ANDREW DeMILLO
Aug 1, 2014
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — With the hiring of its first state director, the Human Rights Campaign has highlighted how much of a battleground Arkansas has become in the fight over equal rights for gays and lesbians.
So far, however, gay rights advocates have seen more victories in courtrooms than at the polls or legislative chambers.
The nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights group announced last week it had hired Kendra Johnson, a Little Rock native, to be its first state director for Arkansas.
The move comes as opponents of Arkansas’ ban on gay marriage are fighting that prohibition, and on the heels of a legal victory this year that allowed the state to be the first in the South to allow same-sex unions, albeit briefly....
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