While applying for a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts earlier this year, Marta Martinez, executive director of the nonprofit Rhode Island Latino Arts, noticed that she was required to check a box that said that the organization would not “promote gender ideology.” She contacted the ACLU, who took on the case, and earlier this month, a federal judge ruled that the NEA could not disfavor groups based on whether or not they promoted “gender ideology.”

Morning host Luis Hernandez talked with Marta Martinez and Lynette Labinger, one of the attorneys who represented RILA and 3 other arts organizations.

Interview highlights:

What was the case that RILA and the ACLU argued in court?

Lynette Labinger:  The purpose of these grants is to promote artistic expression, not to hire p

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