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Texas Republican Party compared to Uganda – New Texas GOP Platform: criminalize gay marriage and ban sodomy, outlaw strip clubs and pornography

Republican activists threw out their party chairwoman Saturday, then bucked Texas Governor Rick Perry by pushing for a crackdown on illegal immigration similar to Arizona’s new law. New Texas GOP Platform: criminalize gay marriage and ban sodomy, outlaw strip clubs and pornography.

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Kentucky budget negotiators stop talking; still no funding for KADAP

Apr 1st, 2010 | By Michael Thomas, Kentucky Political Editor & Senior Contributor | Category: Kentucky Political News, Lead Story

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 debt. Organizations across the Commonwealth have expressed alarm and dismay that the budget will be passed that does not include funding for the Kentucky AIDS Drug Assistance Program (KADAP).

Tags: AVOL, Commonwealth of Kentucky, Election 2010, HIV/AIDS, KADAP, Kentucky Budget, Kentucky Equality Federation, Kentucky Governor, Kentucky HIV/AIDS Advocacy Action Group, Kentucky HIV/AIDS Planning and Advisory Council, Kentucky House of Representatives, Kentucky House Speaker, Kentucky Senate, Kentucky Senate President, Kentucky Supreme Court Posted in Kentucky Political News, Lead Story | 7 comments

U.S. Supreme Court to rule on anti-gay protests at funerals; the end of the road for the Westboro Baptist Church?

Mar 10th, 2010 | By Kentucky Guardian Contributors & Staff | Category: Kentucky Guardian News, Lead Story, National News

In a shocking move, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to rule on whether constitutional free-speech rights protected anti-gay protests by members of a Kansas church at funerals for U.S. military members killed in Iraq. The group maintains that God hates homosexuals above all other kinds of “sinners” and that homosexuality should be a capital crime.

Tags: Berea Baptist Church, Kentucky Equality Federation, Kentucky Supreme Court, U.S. Supreme Court, Westboro Baptist Church Posted in Kentucky Guardian News, Lead Story, National News | 6 comments