Posts Tagged ‘ Marriage Equality Kentucky ’

Kentucky Equality Federation Compares Interracial Marriage Ban to Gay Marriage fight.

Dec 5th, 2011 | By Kentucky Guardian Contributors & Staff | Category: Around the Commonwealth, Kentucky Guardian News

Kentucky Equality Federation today made a comparison most gay rights organizations avoid. The fact the gay community is now fighting the same fight that Interracial couples and the entire Black community once faced – discrimination.



Kentucky Equality Federation and StoryCorps to give voices to gay people in Southeastern Kentucky

Feb 23rd, 2011 | By News Tips: tips@unitedwestandky.com | Category: Around the Commonwealth, Kentucky Guardian News

Kentucky Equality Federation has partnered with StoryCorps to highlight the lack of equality in Southern Kentucky.



EKU Public Forum

Feb 23rd, 2011 | By News Tips: tips@unitedwestandky.com | Category: Around the Commonwealth, Kentucky Guardian News

The Alphabet Center, the new gay-straight alliance at Eastern Kentucky University will post a public forum of fairness and equality in Kentucky tomorrow from 6 pm – 9 pm.



November election uncertain and lawmakers are reluctant to prefile bills

Sep 13th, 2010 | By News Tips: tips@unitedwestandky.com | Category: Kentucky Guardian News, Kentucky Political News, Lead Story

This year you will find little to no prefiled legislation in Kentucky, a sign that Kentucky lawmakers are not ready to push any particular agenda. Incumbent lawmakers are not sure of the outcome of the November 02, 2010. For better or worse, both Kentucky and the nation are moving in different directions and this election will determine who will control both the Kentucky and the U.S. Senate.



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

Aug 7th, 2010 | By Guest User 3 | Category: Kentucky Guardian News, Viewpoints

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.



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, Kentucky Guardian News, Lead Story

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).



Kentucky’s 2009 LGBTI Recap

Dec 31st, 2009 | By Tony Begley, Contributor and Literary Editor | Category: Around the Commonwealth

If ever there were a roller-coaster year, 2009 was it. A we await the new year, Kentucky’s exhausted LGBTI civil rights leaders, as well as the thousands of activist, supporters, and allies enjoy some much needed downtime before it all starts again in 2010.



Marriage equality lost, but not losing

Nov 16th, 2009 | By Trevor Ashley, Contributor | Category: Lead Story, Viewpoints

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.



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