Around the Commonwealth

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

Aug 31st, 2010 | By News Tips: tips@unitedwestandky.com | Category: Around the Commonwealth, United We Stand News

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

Aug 20th, 2010 | By News Tips: tips@unitedwestandky.com | Category: Around the Commonwealth, Lead Story, United We Stand News

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

Aug 18th, 2010 | By News Tips: tips@unitedwestandky.com | Category: Around the Commonwealth, United We Stand News

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

Aug 8th, 2010 | By United We Stand Contributors & Staff | Category: Around the Commonwealth, United We Stand News

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

Jun 24th, 2010 | By Julie Fite, Contributor | Category: Around the Commonwealth, Lead Story, United We Stand News

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

Jun 16th, 2010 | By Michael Thomas, Kentucky Political Editor & Senior Contributor | Category: Around the Commonwealth, Lead Story, United We Stand News

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).



U.S. Weighs Lifting Ban on Gay Men as Blood Donors; Kentucky Could Still Prosecute

Jun 11th, 2010 | By Tony Begley, Contributor and Literary Editor | Category: Around the Commonwealth, Lead Story, United We Stand News

Experts at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services are midway through two days of hearings on whether a decades-old ban on gay men donating blood should stand or be lifted. Many states criminalize gay men donating blood, so even if the U.S. Food and Drug Administration lifts the federal ban, gay males in 37 states could still be prosecuted by the state they live in. Most states make gay men donating blood a felony, however, 3 states make it a misdemeanor offense. The Commonwealth of Kentucky is among the 37 states that prosecute.



Kentucky Republican Party rally to support Rand Paul draws protests

May 23rd, 2010 | By Michael Thomas, Kentucky Political Editor & Senior Contributor | Category: Around the Commonwealth, United We Stand News

Demonstrators crash a Kentucky Republican Party meeting to rally the Commonwealth’s GOP behind Rand Paul after a bitter primary campaign in which much of the Republican party backed his opponent, Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson.



Change.org joins Kentucky Equality Federation demanding action: Louisville School Targets Student Over Her Lesbian Parents

May 13th, 2010 | By Tony Begley, Contributor and Literary Editor | Category: Around the Commonwealth, United We Stand News

The editor of the gay rights cause for change.org came out swinging today against Crosby Middle School and Assistant Principal Angela B. Allen, joining Kentucky Equality Federation and one of the nation’s most popular LGBTI blogs, Pam’s House Blend demanding immediate action.



Co-sponsor of Kentucky’s same-sex marriage ban could be part of the Commonwealth’s Congressional Delegation

May 5th, 2010 | By Tony Begley, Contributor and Literary Editor | Category: Around the Commonwealth, United We Stand News

Lieutenant Governor and former Kentucky Senator Daniel Mongiardo (D) filed a complaint Tuesday with the Executive Branch Ethics Commission against his primary rival, Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway (D). The two are facing each other in the Democratic primary.  Mongiardo was unsuccessful in his 2004 run against Jim Bunning (R).
Mongiardo says Conway has accepted [...]



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