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Kentucky Political News

Rand Paul draws fire from the National Tea Party

Kentucky's Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Rand Paul's opponent isn't the only one who thinks Paul compromised his stance against business as usual in Washington, D.C., by taking campaign cash at ...

American Family Association of Kentucky founder behind the Louisville Tea Party; Kentucky Capitol to be meeting site

The president of the anti-gay American Family Association of Kentucky, Dr. Frank G. Simon, largely sponsored by Thornton's and Kroger according to their website, is also in charge of the ...

Kentucky Senate says discrimination is any form is inconsistent with Kentucky values; Rand Paul continues to lead Jack Conway

On Friday the Republican controlled Kentucky Senate passed a resolution that could include gay and lesbian people in Kentucky.  The Kentucky Senate is trying to reduce its embarrassment of Rand ...

Rand Paul pulls back from comments about civil rights and disability

Rand Paul, winner of Kentucky's Republican nomination to represent the Commonwealth in the U.S. Senate, is working to tamp down the controversy over his statements criticizing nondiscrimination laws. Less than 48 ...

The Kentucky gay vote. No openly gay candidate has ever been elected to the Kentucky House or Senate.

Democratic turnout in Kentucky declined 8% from the last midterm, while Republican turnout rose 27%. Curtis Morrison, an openly gay candidate for Jefferson County Judge Executive lost his campaign, though he ...

Gay rights group asks the FBI and Assistant U.S. Attorney to investigate Jackson County hate crime

Dee Johnson, the mother of Cheyenne Williams says the Kentucky State Police Investigator assigned to investigate the assault of her daughter perjured himself during the preliminary hearing in Jackson County ...

Louisville House District 28 has no pro-gay candidates

House District 28 representing a portion of Louisville in the Kentucky House of Representatives is a hotly contested race, with no pro-LGBTI candidates. The incumbent, Representative Charles Miller (D) faces a ...

Kentucky HIV/AIDS community suffers as the legislature continues fighting over non-life threatening issues

Facing a deadline of midnight tonight to adjourn, legislative leaders have yet to agree on a budget.  Governor Beshear told Kentucky lawmakers to "get their egos under control" and produce ...

Anti-government group threatens Kentucky’s gay-friendly Governor; orders him to resign

Governor Steve Beshear has been receiving threatening letters ordering him to resign according to his security detachment from the Kentucky State Police. Governor Beshear kept a campaign promise to Kentucky's gay ...

Kentucky budget negotiators stop talking; still no funding for KADAP

Budget negotiations in Frankfort collapsed Wednesday amid enormous differences over a sliver of the spending plan that would create a spate of state-backed construction projects while adding to the Commonwealth's ...

Kentucky House of Representatives Adopts Christian Principals

The separation of church and state are even more blurred in Kentucky thanks to a resolution passed by the House of Representatives. The House passed Resolution 232, the Manhattan Declaration, with ...

12 Kentucky Organizations Slam Frankfort over KADAP; most have uncertain future

In a proposed commonwealth budget that allocates over $3.4 billion for road projects, a small request of $3.5 million to fund the Kentucky AIDS Drug Assistance Program (KADAP) ...

Exclusive Interview with Curtis Morrrison (D-Louisville) candidate for Jefferson County Judge/Executive

No doubt to the dismay to the Family Foundation of Kentucky, the Commonwealth has several gay men seeking political offices across the Commonwealth.  From Representative, Mayor, to Judge/Executive, Kentucky could ...

Did Senator Julian Carroll (D) lose his temper on CNN at the Kentucky Capitol?

Did former Governor and current Senator Julian Carroll (D) lose his cool on CNN at the Kentucky Capitol? Many in Frankfort believe he did, calling him an "embarrassment."  The ...

U.S. Rep. denies being part of secret society and supporting Uganda’s proposed “kill the gays” law to Kentucky gay rights organization

A representative from Kentucky Equality Federation forwarded this response from U.S. Representative Bart Stupak who denies involvement with the secret organization "The Family," and Uganda's proposed law to execute homosexuals ...

Kentucky’s gay Statehouse candidates could get wide support though gay causes may not

As we prepare to enter a new year, 2010 could bring additional changes to Kentucky's political makeup if the national trend of electing gay candidates extends to Kentucky. Earlier this year, ...

Legislation filed to end Kentucky’s same-sex marriage ban

Kentucky Equality Federation has hailed legislation filed by Representative Mary Lou Marzian (D-Louisville) to overturn Kentucky's same-sex marriage, civil unions, and the domestic partnerships ban. Marzian, a member of the Kentucky ...

Kentucky Young Democrats also looking to oust Senate President David Williams

The Kentucky Young Democrats, and the Young Democrats of America ("YDA") also have their eyes on the Kentucky Senate, as Democrats have an opportunity to retake the upper chamber of ...

Democrats could be closer to taking over the Kentucky Senate

Democrat Jodie Haydon raised more than twice as much as his Republican opponent for his Kentucky Senate race in District 14. Documents filed with the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance ...

Around the Commonwealth

Anti-gay groups says school bullying laws are actually pro-gay

Focus on the Family has a message for gay rights activists: stay off the playground. Candi Cushman, an education analyst for the James Dobson-founded group, told The Denver Post this weekend that gay rights advocates have inserted their agenda into anti-bullying efforts at the expense of “Christian values.”

Whitley County Judge Executive passes resolution against gay marriage

Whitley County Judge-Executive Pat White Jr. is hoping to spark a national movement in order to pass and ratify an amendment to the United States Constitution establishing marriage as only being recognized as a union between a man and a woman in the United States of America.

Juvenile acquitted in alleged attack on gay Jackson teen; trial for the adults scheduled for Thursday

The Lexington Herald-Leader reported that District Judge Henria Bailey-Lewis acquitted the juvenile at her trial on Monday. The girl’s name has not been released because she was 17 in April, when the alleged crime occurred. Her trial was closed, but her attorney, Sharon K. Allen Gay, said she received permission to release information about the verdict. The teen and two 18-year-old friends, Corinne Schwab and Ashley Sams, were charged in April with attempted murder and kidnapping in a case involving Cheyenne Williams. The trial for Schwab and Sams, is scheduled for Thursday.

Kentucky Senate President Williams: Republican victories in two Kentucky congressional races

WFPL News reports that Kentucky Senate President David Williams was busy during the weekend, making speeches and taking about Republicans taking additional seats in the Kentucky Senate. No pro-LGBTI legislation has made it through the Republican controlled Senate.

Toby Ray Lasure accused of killing ex-boyfriend Christopher Tolliver ruled fit to stand trial

Toby Ray Lasure, 33, the man accused of killing ex-boyfriend Christopher Tolliver, 31, in the parking lot of the Lexington Green Shopping Center last year was ruled competent to stand trial by Fayette Circuit Judge Kimberly Bunnell on Wednesday.

Kentucky’s representation does not support the Respect for Marriage Act

Not a single member of Kentucky’s Congressional Delegation has co-sponsored U.S. House Resolution 3567, the Respect for Marriage Act. It was quickly place in Committee, where it has remained buried since October 19, 2009. The Commonwealth’s U.S. House Delegation currently includes Ed Whitfield (R), Brett Guthrie (R), John Yarmuth (D), Geoff Davis (R), Hal Rogers (R), and Ben Chandler (D).

National News

Ann Coulter dropped from right-wing speaking gig for headlining gay Republican event

Conservative speaker Ann Coulter, the woman who says you cannot say the word “fagot” without going to rehab, claims Jews need to be “perfected,” and calls people in the Middle East “Camel Jockeys,” has been asked to step down as a keynote speaker at WorldNetDaily’s “Taking America Back National Conference”.
Coulter is an American constitutional attorney, [...]

New Jersey Gay Marriage Supreme Court Case; Democrats and Republicans Blamed

Seven months after the New Jersey Senate failed to pass a gay marriage law, and nearly a month after the New Jersey Supreme Court refused to hear a gay case, speculation runs rampant through the state and the nation. Senator Lesniak (D) blamed his own party as being without a moral compass. Others blamed the Governor, the first Republican to win a statewide election in New Jersey in 12 years.

Genetic Engineering; A Cure for Homosexuality? Would anyone want it? Share your thoughts!

A prenatal pill for congenital adrenal hyperplasia to prevent ambiguous genitalia may reduce the chance that a female with the disorder will be gay. Critics call it engineering for sexual orientation while others are calling it outright genetic engineering.

Federal Judge sides with the California Supreme Court; Prop 8 is unconstitutional

A federal judge declared California’s ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional Wednesday, saying that no legitimate state interest justified treating gay and lesbian couples differently from others and that “moral disapproval” was not enough to save the voter-passed Proposition 8. The California Supreme Court ruled 4 to 3 that gays and lesbians were entitled to marry under the state Constitution in a historic ruling in May 2008. Voters passed Proposition 8 six months later, amending the state Constitution to ban same-sex marriage.

California gay marriage decision announced today; massive anticipation builds on gay marriage ruling scheduled for today

California gay marriage decision announced today. The decision will be posted online between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m., Pacific time, and will be written by Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker. Walker, an appointee of President George H.W. Bush, heard myriad witnesses testify about the history of marriage, the nature of homosexuality and the degree of power gays and lesbians possess in the political system.

New Jersey Supreme Court rejects gay marriage case

New Jersey Supreme Court will not consider whether the state’s civil union law provides equal rights to gay couples before the case is heard in a lower court. The court said yesterday that it could not consider the merits of the claim by six same-sex couples that New Jersey’s civil union law is unconstitutional, until there is a trial record.

International News

Mexico Supreme Court to rule on gay adoption; the court upheld gay marriage

Felipe Calderon, president of the United Mexican States and his opposition to legalize gay marriage and calling it “unconstitutional” was overruled on Thursday, August 5, 2010 when Mexico’s Supreme Court sanctioned the landmark law. On Monday it will review the gay adoption clause. Washington, D.C. legalized gay marriage earlier this year after a District Superior Court rejected a citizens anti-gay marriage referendum.

Argentina legalizes gay marriage

The Argentine Republic on Thursday became the first nation in Latin America to legalize same-sex marriage, turning aside protests from the Roman Catholic Church to give gay couples the same rights as their heterosexual counterparts. It was not immediately clear if the provinces will accept the Federation’s legalization of same-sex marriage.

World outrage continues as gay couple sentenced to 14 years hard labor

The United Kingdom announced today that it will review its aid to Malawi if the Government refuses to free two gay men who were sentenced to 14 years’ hard labor this week. Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steven Monjeza — who were sentenced to 14 years hard labor on Thursday for getting engaged in a traditional ceremony in December.

World’s largest gay rights organization cancels worldwide conference because of protests and violence

The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Intersex Organization (“ILGA”), formerly known simply as “International Lesbian and Gay Organization” the world’s largest LGBTI organization, with nearly 700 member organizations in 110 counties across the world commented today about the cancellation of a worldwide conference due to threats, protests, and violence.

Kingdom of the Netherlands fury over U.S. general’s saying gays are responsible for massacre

A retired American general has apologized for a remark to the U.S. Senate suggesting that gay Dutch soldiers were partly to blame for the Srebrenica massacre by Serb soldiers in Bosnia, according to the Kingdom of the Netherlands Defense Ministry. The Netherlands Defense Ministry released an e-mail Tuesday from Sheehan, a former NATO commander who retired from the military in 1997, to retired Dutch General Henk van den Breemen saying he is sorry for his statements to the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee on March 18, 2010.

Republic of Uganda may Withdraw Anit-Gay Legislation because of International Pressure

The law was proposed in Uganda’s Parliament following a visit by leaders of U.S. conservative Christian ministries that promote therapy for gays to become heterosexual. However, at least one of those leaders has denounced the bill, as have some other conservative and liberal Christians in the United States.

Viewpoints

Kentucky Senate President Williams says Kentucky needs new direction and is running for Governor

Kentucky Senate President Williams says Kentucky needs new direction, apparently forgetting that his Senate failed to pass a budget, forcing Governor Beshear to call them into special session at an estimated cost of $66,000.00 per day.

Prop 8 ruling could be temporary and hurl marriage equality back decades

The legal battle over same-sex marriage is far from over. Last year, the leaders of major gay rights organizations issued a plea urging people not to make Prop 8 a federal issue. The national and state leaders of these organizations listed their reasons for issuing the plea — the battle must we waged within the states.

Count And Be Counted!

The census is back and this is the chance for every citizen to be counted. The census is important, as it determines the number of seats our state occupies in the House of Representatives. Additionally, the census provides vital information for advocacy, researching markets, locating pools of workers, and so much more. In short, the census is critical and we hope you will all participate.

Liberty Counsel’s Agenda for 2010: Take Back America

In an email to members, the anti-gay, very powerful Liberty Counsel outlines its 2010 priorities. Perhaps this email would have been somewhat inspiring had it not been so misguided. It was Liberty Counsel that first sounded the alarm to dismantle California’s same-sex marriage law. Should the legislation filed by Mary Lou Marzian (D-Louisville), a Senior Representative in the Kentucky House of Representatives to repeal Kentucky’s ban on same-sex marriage, civil unions, and “similar institutions,” make it out of a House Committee, we’ll have one heck of a fight on our hands.

Obama/Oprah White House Christmas in Bad Taste

I found it bad taste for Oprah Winfrey to host the “White House Christmas” television special. We are in the middle of a major recession; states have no money, people continue to become homeless, jobs continue to shrink, people are starving right here in the United States, and homosexuals may soon be executed in the Republic of Uganda.

What can a Gay Kentuckian really do?

Viewpoint: I see the Fairness Campaign, Kentucky Fairness Alliance, and the Kentucky Equality Federation tirelessly show up for -fight after fight, and I think- geez, when will this ever end? And I also wonder, what can we really do for today’s gay teenager in Elizabethtown or Paducah? I came across an unexpected answer in my reading tonight.

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