Today, Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin signed SB 17 into law, a measure that allows student groups at colleges, universities, and high schools to discriminate against LGBTQ students. SB 17 undermines inclusive “all comers” policies at public colleges, universities, and now high schools, by allowing student organizations to discriminate against students under the guise of religion….
FRANKFORT, Kentucky — An anti-LGBT bill has passed the Kentucky House in an 81 to 8 vote after passing through the Senate last month. SB 17, is a bill that would, among other things, allow student groups at colleges, universities, and high schools to discriminate against LGBTQ students. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has called…
A federal judge has ruled that the state of Kentucky must pay $1.1 million to the attorneys who represented the plaintiffs who successfully challenged the state’s gay marriage ban last year. ABC News reports that in 2014, U.S. District Judge John Heyburn ruled the state’s ban on gay marriage unconstitutional. Attorney General Jack Conway refused…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Marriage equality has finally arrived in Rowan County, Ky. After defiant county clerk, Kim Davis, was held in contempt of court for her refusal to follow the law yesterday, an official in the clerk’s office today finally complied with the law and began issuing marriage licenses. “Today, the needless wait for loving and committed couples…
Today, Rowan County, Ky. clerk Kim Davis was found in contempt of court by a federal judge for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses on religious grounds. Davis was led away by U.S. marshals and taken into custody reports Reuters. “The court doesn’t do this lightly,” District Court Judge David Bunning said in ordering she…
Today, HRC President Chad Griffin appeared on MSNBC to discuss the ongoing situation in Rowan County, Ky., where County Clerk Kim Davis continues to flout the law by denying marriage licenses to couples. “With the results of the United States Supreme Court decision in the Obergefell case, marriage licenses must be issued equally. That’s her…
