Sixteen states have passed laws that define the misrepresentation of a pet as a service animal as a crime; we continue to petition across the country to make this a punishable offense.
Some states responded by passing laws banning all surrogacy agreements; New York and Michigan make them punishable by fines, Washington, D.C., by a prison sentence.
A number of celebrities, including Stephen Fry, urged people to boycott the Dorchester Collection chain of hotels owned by the sultan – among them the Dorchester Hotel in London – because the new law will make homosexuality punishable by death.
Warren recently gave in to pressure to denounce a proposed bill in Uganda that would make homosexuality punishable by death in certain circumstances; while condemning the notion of criminalising gay people he still maintained homosexuality was unbiblical.
Earlier this year, the Florida legislature passed a bill that will decriminalize the first sexting offense by a minor and instead make it punishable by up to 8 hours of community service and a $60 fine.
The Republican-controlled Oklahoma Senate approved a bill on Thursday that would make abortions punishable by up to three years in prison for doctors who perform them, except in cases where the mother's life is at risk.
The General Assembly today passed a bill that would make such profiling punishable by five years in prison and a $15,000 fine.
"This is only to help members with laws of the land," she said, which make it a punishable offense to offend any person from a scheduled caste or tribe.
It comes despite EU legislation from 2005 that asks countries to pass laws that make Holocaust denial "punishable as a criminal offence".
Unlike Mauritania, Sudan, and parts of Nigeria and Somalia, Kenya does not make homosexual acts punishable by death.
