Kim Davis is refusing to do her job, but she’s far from the only Kentuckian shirking responsibility. More troubling is that the governor and state legislature are refusing to act. How voters respond will be an important statement about the future of LGBT rights and the rule of law. Davis is the Rowan County clerk…
INDIANAPOLIS — Freedom Indiana, the statewide grassroots organization that successfully fought a constitutional marriage amendment and sounded the alarm on the economically devastating Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), today launched a campaign to update existing laws against discrimination to include gay and transgender Hoosiers. The campaign will be managed by Chris Paulsen, a veteran…
WASHINGTON — As Obama administration proposes new rules that would prevent health care providers from discriminating against transgender surgery and similar gender-related care, a new survey of transgender people nationally finds that even when care is denied, there are important costs for both insurers and the public. As a result of being denied insurance coverage for…
Mat Staver, the Liberty Counsel attorney who is representing Kentucky clerk Kim Davis has come up with yet another outrageous comment on the case. Right Wing Watch reports that Staver appeared on the “WallBuilders Live” radio program today, where he said that requiring Davis to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples is like requiring her…
Republican presidential hopefuls Mike Huckabee and Ted Cruz have made the trip to Kentucky just in time to be with Kim Davis as she is released from jail. Huckabee planned to host a rally for Davis Thursday afternoon. Sunday, Huckabee likened the Supreme Court decision to “judicial tyranny,” reports Yahoo News. “What we’ve seen here…
Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who was jailed for refusing to give marriage licenses to same-sex couples, walked free today after five days behind bars. District Judge David Bunning ordered the release of Davis from federal custody and ordered her not to “interfere in any way, directly or indirectly, with the efforts of her…
After two and a half years of trials, a new study has found no new HIV infections among a group of people on pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), reports HIV Plus magazine. For 32 months, researchers at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in San Francisco tracked the health of over 600 people as they used Truvada daily…
Standing outside the detention center where she is being held, Kim Davis’ attorney has announced that she will appeal her contempt of court ruling, reports The Advocate. Mat Staver of the right-wing anti-LGBT legal group Liberty Counsel said at the press conference yesterday that Thursday’s hearing, at which U.S. District Judge David Bunning found the…
SACRAMENTO—Assembly Speaker Toni G. Atkins (D-San Diego) has announced that the Assembly Democratic Caucus has selected Assemblymember Anthony Rendon (D-Lakewood) to become the 70th Speaker of the Assembly. The leadership change will occur after a floor vote in January and a transition period to be determined by the Speaker and the Speaker-elect. “With the crush…
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has launched a new digital campaign asking Jeb Bush, Scott Walker and Donald Trump to take a position regarding Kentucky’s Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, who was held in contempt in federal court yesterday for her disobedience of a federal court order directing her to begin issuing marriage licenses to…
