Procter & Gamble are capitalizing on the current wave of ant-gay fervor from the religious right with a new commercial for their Tide To Go product. The commercial features a Kim Davis lookalike who initially appears to come across as a religious zealot. But unlike the real Rowan County, KY. clerk the individual in the…
Following the Mike Huckabee-inspired fiasco of Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis’ release from custody, famed actor and LGBT activist George Takei has weighed in with his take on the Davis debacle. Posting on his Facebook, Takei wrote: Well this is a bit of a circus. So let us be clear: This woman is no hero to…
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…
Even the rabidly anti-LGBT Westboro Baptist Church has condemned the actions of Kim Davis. In a series of Tweets on Friday, Westboro members began tweeting Bible verses and takedowns of Davis, calling her out for her own “sins of adultery.” It seems that Davis is just too hypocritical for the Westboro Baptist Church!
The last several weeks have been monumental with respect to the implementation of marriage equality in the United States. As gays and lesbians have celebrated the Supreme Court decision giving us equal marriage rights across the nation, there are those committed to ensuring that it is not universally applied. That is one reason why you…
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…
Despite a ruling from a federal judge that requires a Kentucky county clerk to process marriage licenses for all couples, this morning Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis violated that order by refusing to process a same-sex marriage license. Zack Ford writes on Think Progress Davis refused to have her name on same-sex couples’ marriage licenses…
