With one openly gay candidate running for Lexington’s top government position, organizations in Louisville have invited candidates running for Louisville Mayor to a public forum on February 02, 2010.

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 or those who are HIV positive. The real scandal however is the secret society/organization known as “The Family.” The Family has long been a secretive organization, it maintains no public website and conducts no public fundraising activities.

In February, David Bahati, the mover of the controversial Anti-Homosexuality Bill is expected to attend a prayer breakfast in the American capitol of Washington in the District of Columbia. Uganda has been warned that passing the law would lead to sanctions from the Commonwealth of Nations, the United Nations, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision last week, with conservatives in the majority, intervened in the San Francisco district court trial on behalf of the defenders of Proposition 8. The U.S. Supreme Court, in its opinion, decided that they — not homosexuals — faced a hostile public climate of harassment and intimidation. Historically, the U.S. Supreme Court does not get too far ahead of either public opinion or the law in the majority of states.

Lexington Vice Mayor Jim Gray, an openly gay politician who has been critical of the Newberry Administration in the past, confirmed today that he is running for Mayor in 2010 against incumbent Jim Newberry.

Since the termination of the Kentucky AIDS Assistance Program people living with HIV/AIDS are in need of assistance today more than ever. With December 1st being World Aids Day, I can think of no better way to contribute to the Worldwide event than to make a donate to AVOL, or attend their Red Ribbon Ball on December 5th at The Red Mile in Lexington.

The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington is warning the District of Columbia Council that the church will stop contracting to provide social services if the city approves same-sex marriage as planned. To which the only valid response is, “OK.”

But whether it is the National Organization for Marriage, the Liberty Counsel, the American Family Association, or the Family Foundation of Kentucky, anyone who denies that “American opinion is shifting” inhabits a fool’s paradise. Opposition to gay marriage is shrinking. In 1996, 65 percent took a negative view. Since then, support has fallen by about one percentage point a year. Basically, one (1) out of every eight (8) Americans has gone from opposing the concept to endorsing it.