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Jordan Palmer and Kentucky Equality Federation sue for gay equality

Activist Jordan Palmer and group files lawsuit challenging Kentucky’s ban on same-sex marriage (gay marriage) POLITICS & GOVERNMENT BY JACK BRAMMER – JBRAMMER@HERALD-LEADER.COM UPDATED OCTOBER 01, 2013 3:46 PM FRANKFORT — Jordan Palmer and Kentucky Equality Federation has filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn the state’s 2004 constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriage. The lawsuit, filed […]

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Richmond gay-rights activist Scottie Wayne Saltsman dies at 44

Scottie Wayne Saltsman, 44, of Richmond, who had been honored as Ambassador of Goodwill by the Kentucky Equality Federation last week, died Sunday of cancer. Mr. Saltsman was a former Kentucky State police officer and had been a supervisor at the Kentucky Department of Criminal Justice Training and a law enforcement instructor at Eastern Kentucky

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Kentucky Gov. Beshear vetoes religious freedom bill

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Gov. Steve Beshear vetoed a controversial religious-freedom bill Friday afternoon, saying the measure was well-intended but would spark costly taxpayer-funded court cases and bring an array of unintended consequences. “I have significant concerns that this bill will cause serious unintentional consequences that could threaten public safety, health care and individuals’ civil rights,”

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Teacher Writes ‘You Can’t Be A Democrat & Go To Heaven’ On Chalkboard

BY BILL ESTEP – BESTEP@HERALD-LEADER.COM UPDATED NOVEMBER 27, 2012 9:06 AM LAUREL COUNTY, Ky. (CBS) – A complaint has been filed against a teacher accused of writing anti-Democrat rhetoric on her classroom chalkboard. “You can’t be a Democrat & go to heaven,” the board of South Laurel High School teacher Kendra Baker read earlier this

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Lexington police investigate disappearance of anti-gay, anti-abortion sign from billboard

Homosexuality is an abomination, and Abortion is murder a Lexington billboard on New Circle Road said. Lexington police said Thursday they would investigate the disappearance of a controversial billboard message that denounced homosexuality and abortion. The message on a billboard on New Circle Road near Leestown Road appeared last week and cited Bible passages beneath

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Kentucky Equality Federation leader steps down because of health reasons

A high-profile advocate for gay and lesbian people in Kentucky is stepping down because of a serious health condition. Jordan Palmer, president of the Kentucky Equality Federation, will turn over the reins of the organization to another officer as of May 7, according to a news release. Palmer plans to return to the federation when

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Kentucky men indicted under Matthew Shepard federal hate crime law

Kerry Harvey and Jordan Palmer announced a federal grand jury in London, Kentucky, indicted two men in the first Matthew Shepard Hate Crime Act application. LEXINGTON, Ky. — A federal grand jury in London, Ky. on Thursday indicted two men in the first federal application of the Matthew Shepard – James C. Bryd hate crimes

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Kentucky men face first-of-their-kind federal hate-crime charges

Two Kentucky men face the first federal hate crimes charges for attacking someone because of their sexual orientation BY BILL ESTEP – BESTEP@HERALD-LEADER.COM UPDATED NOVEMBER 12, 2015 11:41 AM Two Eastern Kentucky men are the first in the nation to be charged under the section of the federal hate-crimes law that makes it illegal to

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Kentucky advocacy group pushes first federal hate crime arrests

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Four people were charged Wednesday with kidnapping a man and taking him to a state park in Kentucky’s Appalachian region, then severely beating him while yelling slurs about his sexual orientation. The FBI arrested 37-year-old David Jason Jenkins of Cumberland, 20-year-old Anthony Ray Jenkins and 19-year-old Alexis Leann Combs Jenkins of

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Four face federal charges after allegedly assaulting gay man

Four people face federal charges in the alleged kidnapping of a gay man in Harlan County who said they attacked him because of his sexual orientation. The four aided one another in kidnapping Kevin Pennington and holding him for the purpose of assaulting him, according to a federal complaint sworn out by Anthony M. Sankey,

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