DOE on Anti-LGBT Religious Exemption: Over the last two years the Dept. of Education has granted a number of religiously-controlled colleges an exemption from Title IX where full compliance would conflict with their religious tenets. With the exemption, the schools may continue to receive federal funds even though they discriminate in various ways on the basis of marital status, sex outside of marriage, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, or abortion. Human Rights Campaign says that now the Department of Education has agreed to create a searchable database of educational institutions that have applied for and/or received such exemptions.
