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…
As the song says “At last my love has come along.” Like most LGBT people, my love affair with same-sex marriage has finally been consummated. I am sure you will agree that the issue that defined 2015 was marriage. June 26, same-sex marriage became the law of the land, at last. While the year and…
Fear of “special rights” for LGBT Americans to sexualize workplaces, schools, and churches set back the cause of equal rights decades. Those who opposed “special rights” did so more effectively than those who supported equality. Pope Francis, just before departing the U.S., bestowed special rites on Kentucky clerk Kim Davis, whom some liken to Montgomery…
Reports from near the first capital of the Confederate States of America (CSA), Montgomery, Alabama, show that LGBT couples in the Heart of Dixie, the state’s nickname, are being denied marriage licenses based on clerks emboldened by the momentary misguided political support surrounding superstar anti-marriage clerk Kim Davis. Davis, a lifelong Democrat, recently captured headlines…
SALT LAKE CITY — The National LGBTQ Task Force today welcomed the comments of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints leader Dallin H. Oaks condemning government officials who “apply (their) duties selectively according to their personal preferences — whatever their source.” His comments were widely seen as referring to Kentucky clerk Kim Davis who discriminated…
The rabidly anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church protested against Kim Davis today, accusing the county clerk of hypocrisy and adultery, reports The Courier Journal. Four Westboro members picketed on a street corner near the Rowan County Courthouse, waving signs that denounced “fag marriage” and playing popular songs that were altered with inflammatory lyrics. It was one…
Over the last few days the Pope’s visit with anti-gay County Clerk Kim Davis has dominated the news and received an inordinate amount of coverage. Now it has been revealed that th day before this meeting took place the Pope met with a gay couple in a private meeting. CNN reports that the Pope met…
The National LGBTQ Task Force has condemned Pope Francis’ meeting with Kim Davis — the Kentucky government official who discriminated against same-sex couples and ignored a Supreme Court Order to follow the law. In a statement issued Wednesday, Russell Roybal, deputy executive director of the Task Force said, “The Pope’s meeting with Kim Davis breathes…
WASHINGTON — Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation, weighed in on news reports that Pope Francis met privately last week with Kim Davis, the Rowan County, Ky., public official who continues to violate the law by openly discriminating against same-sex couples seeking to marry in the community they call home. “We hope that this…
Yesterday’s second Republican presidential debate, predictably saw candidates rush to the defense of Kentucky clerk Kim Davis, who not only refused to follow the rule of law and issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, but also refused to permit her deputies to issue marriage licenses. Both Mike Huckabee and Jeb Bush defended Davis, with Huckabee…
