Tags: Religious freedom

Despite the heated debate, South Dakota is set to become the first state to enact a bill that would require transgender students to use bathrooms according to their gender at birth and not their preferred gender identity.

A former member of a polygamous religious sect testified against Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Isaac Wyler filed a complaint about intimidation and vandalism on his property.

The U.S. Department of Justice claims that a polygamous controls the Arizona-Utah border towns of Colorado City and Hildale. The particular religious sect denied housing and police services to non-church members.