Good As You: Kentucky Roundup
11/11/2010
Maggie Gallagher: Putting 'brave' face on basic benefit denial
Yesterday we showed you a couple of disconnects in the way Maggie Gallagher carries out her war on gay people's ring fingers. (1) We showed you how she claims she doesn't want to disrespect gay people in general, even though...
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11/02/2010
KY jolly: Gay man to lead major Southern city
This just in from the Victory Fund: Kentucky’s second-largest city has elected an openly gay man as its next mayor. Vice-Mayor Jim Gray was victorious tonight in his second campaign for the city’s top job, beating incumbent Mayor Jim Newberry....
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08/20/2010
Video: Paper, personal objections, and fear = non-binding anti-equality
It turns out that we shouldn't marry, fellow gays. Ya know, because one Judge Executive in Whitley County, KY, has "moral objections" that he wishes to codify into law, starting with a completely time-wasting, wholly non-binding resolution: Whitley County Fiscal...
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03/16/2010
Ya know, because why shouldn't state legislatures act like anti-gay culture warriors?
You know that Manhattan Declaration, the unabashedly anti-gay, exclusively evangelical document that publicly touts signatures from folks like Scott "the gay movement is a nuclear bomb" Lively, someone who's getting growing (and more eye-opening) attention for his belief that the...
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07/27/2009
Bye, gay-free Bunning
Sen Jim Bunning (R-KY), 7/9/2004: "Throughout civilized history marriage has always been defined as being between one man and one woman. We cannot let a few activist judges in Massachusetts, San Francisco, and Oregon change an institution that has been...
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03/06/2009
Another blow to Mason & Dixon, below the Mason-Dixon
Another southern state legislature is focusing on fostering gay demonization rather than focusing on the fostering of children. This time it's Kentucky, led by state senator Gary Tapp (R-Big Shocker), that seeks to adopt bias. This from the AP: FRANKFORT,...
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11/27/2007
More grown adults misuse words 'protect' and 'children'
If you knew nothing about the "culture war" that exists here in American and you saw lots of sweet-looking individuals holding signs like these... ...what would you think this elderly mob of Jefferson County, Kentucky residents is encouraging via their...
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11/07/2007
Hey, Ernie Fletcher: Beshear to not let the door hit ya on the way out!
We're happy to report that despite the anti-gay attempts from Republicans like Pat Boone (who was speaking on behalf of the GOP), gay-friendly Democratic candidate Steve Beshear still came up triumphant in yesterday's Kentucky gubernatorial face-off against incumbent Ernie Fletcher:...
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11/05/2007
A 'Boone' to biased Kentuckyans
Oh, Pat Boone. As the years go by, his gay-friendliness seems to be dwindling faster than his relevance in the American music scene. For the latest example, listen to this "robo-call" that is currently being distributed to voters in Kentucky:...
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09/26/2006
KY: Westboro-curbing law itself gets curbed
A federal judge ruled today that a Kentucky law designed to keep Westboro Baptist Church from protesting at soldier's funerals is "too broad," prompting her to place a temporary suspension on the measure. Upon hearing the news, we hear the...
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09/13/2006
KY jolly: Bluegrass state school mulls DP benefits
The University of Kentucky, at the request of faculty and staff, is studying the issue of offering health benefits to their employees' unmarried domestic partners, and school officials say they could possibly implement a program by July. Good news for...
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08/16/2006
Wherein Shirl advises soldiers on ways to die
In her latest "epic" detailing a protest of the area surrounding Fort Campell, Kentucky, Westboro Baptist's Shirley Phelps-Roper says to the local soldiers: "God controls your hearts, you dopes; He sent you those lying spirits. You would NOT obey, so...
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07/28/2006
Oh, no, no, no -- we only meant sort of Equal Access
Speaking in opposition to the news that another court has mandated a Southern school open its doors to a Gay-Straight Alliance, Martin Cothran of the Family Foundation of Kentucky tells Agape Press: "The Equal Access law was originally designed to...
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07/20/2006
Reading, writing, and fairness: Another GSA reluctantly approved
In order to avoid a lawsuit, the Boone County High School Site-Based Council has unanimously approved the formation of a Gay-Straight Alliance at the Florence, Kentucky school. And this news comes in the very same week that Georgia's White County...
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07/17/2006
'Roeding, Dick' spews a few boners
In just the past four days, Kentucky Sen. Dick Roeding (R) has disparagingly said of the University of Louisville's decision to offer domestic partner benefits to gay couples, "I don't want to entice any of those people into our state,"...
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06/16/2006
KY Supremes deny lesbian de-facto rights
Despite the fact that she was the primary breadwinner while in a relationship with the girl's adopted mother, the Kentucky Supreme Court unanimously ruled today that a lesbian woman, Teresa Davis, does not have visitation rights to her former partner's...
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05/05/2006
KY activists to jockey for equality at Derby
To inaudibly voice objection to Gov. Ernie Fletcher's failure to veto funding to the University of Cumberlands after it was learned that the school booted a student for being gay, the impartiality seekers at the Kentucky Equality Association will hold...
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05/02/2006
When picking a team becomes hard: ACLU challenges Westboro-targeting law
The free speech & gay rights defenders at the ACLU have filed a federal lawsuit challenging a recently signed Kentucky law that prevents protests at memorial services, wakes, and burials. But while the law was obviously designed to thwart Westboro...
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04/19/2006
Student ousted b/c he didn't want Sue, won't sue
Jason Johnson, the University of Cumberlands student who was recently expelled for being gay, has reportedly reached an agreement with the school that'll allow him to send in course work so that he won't receive "F's". Those grading Johnson's work...
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04/13/2006
No means for mean-spirited policies: KY group seeks nixing of school's funding
Due to the news that the University of the Cumberlands expelled a student after learning he was gay, the Kentucky Fairness Alliance, a gay rights group in the Bluegrass State, has asked Gov. Ernie Fletcher to veto a recently passed...
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04/10/2006
Gayness gets KY student expelled; cap prevents KY jelly expulsion
Jason Johnson, a sophomore theatre major at Williamsburg, Kentucky's University of the Cumberlands, has been expelled for revealing his homosexuality on the popular web destination Myspace.com. Administrators apparently deduced the 20-year-old was gay after noticing HisSpace.com was meticulously decorated, really...
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03/01/2006
ADF still protecting the sanctity of bias
Responding to a federal judge's ruling that students in Boyd County, Kentucky, do not have the right to opt of court-mandated diversity training, the Alliance Defense Fund's Kevin Theriot (who argued on behalf of the anti-diveristy training side) cites the...
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11/01/2005
Kentucky Rep's aide puts e-foot in web-based mouth
Cheryl Long, an aide to Kentucky state Rep. David Osborne (pic.), got herself in a bit of a pickle last week when she mistakingly replied to a constituent who had emailed the Rep. asking him to support gay rights, when...
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07/06/2005
Two years after homosexual's arrival, Kentucky church leaves soiree
Father Kent Litchfield and nearly 100 of his parishioners from Holy Apostles Church in Elizabethtown, KY have announced that they will be separating from the Episcopal denomination and forming their own church, due to the Episcopalians' 2003 ordination of openly...
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05/27/2005
Judge: Kentucky can keep marriage queer-free
Kentucky's gay marriage-banning amendment, which was passed by voters last fall, was declared valid by a judge on Thursday. The ruling also forces Kentucky to change its state motto from "United We Stand, Divided We Fall," to "United We Ban,...
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04/29/2005
ACLU continues to fight for 'mo rights
The ACLU has filed papers in federal court, arguing that mandatory anti-gay harassment training for students at Kentucky's Boyd County High School does not violate the students' right to free exercise of religion. This action is in response to a...
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