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First Unitarian becomes third Louisville church to support marriage equality (UPDATED)

June 7, 2011 – 11:58 am

Following in the footsteps of Douglass Boulevard Christian Church, Old Louisville’s First Unitarian Church has become the second third Christian ministry in the city to decline issuing marriage licenses to straight couples so long as same-sex marriage remains illegal. UPDATED: Technically speaking, the first church in Louisville to do so was Clifton’s Universalist Unitarian church in 2004. (D’oh!) From [...]

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Louisville church adopts pro-same-sex marriage policy

April 19, 2011 – 4:33 pm

The congregation of the Douglas Boulevard Disciples of Christ Church unanimously voted Sunday to end the practice of issuing marriage licences to heterosexual couples so long as same-sex couples are legally prohibited from marrying. Via WHAS-11: “As an Open and Affirming Community of Faith (a designation signifying DBCC’s commitment to full acceptance of all people, regardless of race, gender, age, or sexual [...]

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Actress Ruby Dee to speak at U of L

March 7, 2011 – 11:02 am

The University of Louisville’s “It’s Happening Here” speakers series is hosting legendary actress and human rights advocate, Lady Ruby Dee later this week. The forum is part of International Women’s Day with Dee’s lecture focusing the importance of “Social Justice Through The Arts” in an address to students. For several decades Dee has been a [...]

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Bill to restore felon voting rights passes committee

February 8, 2011 – 3:53 pm

For the fifth straight year, a House committee has approved legislation that would give convicted felons who serve their time and complete probation the right to vote. The bill was sponsored by state Rep. Jesse Crenshaw, D-Lexington, and would put the issue before voters as a constitutional amendment on the next statewide general election. Those [...]

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Mfume to speak at civil rights conference

October 5, 2010 – 8:45 am

The Kentucky Commission on Human Rights will host Kweisi Mfume, former president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People later this month. The civil rights leader is traveling to Louisville to speak at the organization’s 50th Anniversary Civil and Human Rights Conference. The former five-term Democratic congressman is the keynote [...]

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At Least We’re Not Utah (Yet)

February 25, 2010 – 2:50 pm

By now you’ve probably heard of this, Utah’s illustrious plan to make illegal any miscarriage perpetrated by a rogue terrorist womb-carrier (aka “a woman”). From RHRealityCheck.org: In addition to criminalizing an intentional attempt to induce a miscarriage or abortion, the bill also creates a standard that could make women legally responsible for miscarriages caused by [...]

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Fairness on the March

February 25, 2010 – 1:39 pm

Regarding the fairness rally held in Frankfort yesterday, here’s a short blurb courtesy of The Lexington Herald-Leader, a newspaper which apparently still exists: Sponsored by the Kentucky Fairness Alliance, the rally filled the rotunda and featured speeches from two officials with the state Commission on Human Rights and several state lawmakers. The Rev. Albert Pennybaker, [...]

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Felon Voting Rights Bill Passes Committee With Unanimous Vote

February 3, 2010 – 9:00 am

Wow. Just when you’ve completely given up hope that the Kentucky state legislature would ever pass a bill that doesn’t involve telling women what they can and cannot do with their vaginas, they go and do a thing like this: House Bill 70, a proposed constitutional amendment that would restore voting rights more than 186,000 [...]

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KY Senate’s Anti-Choice Abortion Nonsense Bill is Nonsense

January 26, 2010 – 3:38 pm

Oh, to be white, male and a member of the Kentucky senate. Few institutions outside of the Ku Klux Klan, FOX NEWS and the He-Man Women-Hater’s Club reward this demographic more handsomely than our own state legislature. Although the form of these rewards vary wildly — from good ol’ boy coal funding and golf course [...]

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D.C.’s Gays Officially Allowed Freedom to Divorce

December 1, 2009 – 4:11 pm

Did you hear the one about Washington, D.C.’s, city council, the homosexual population and how the former granted the latter actual rights as human beings? It’s weird, I know, but also true: Same-sex marriage will become legal in our nation’s capital by the end of the year, and there’s nothing you or Focus on the [...]

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