Public businesses in Illinois must serve same-sex couples, an Illinois judge ruled Thursday. The ruling was related to a complaint made against Timber Creek Bed and Breakfast by a same-sex couple that was denied service in 2011.
While most of the the Republican presidential candidates have defended Kim Davis, George Pataki has something else to say: "I think she should have been fired, and if she worked for me, I would have fired her."
Kentucky County Clerk Kim Davis lost another appeal to delay issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, marking the latest in a mounting stack of rejected appeals.
Kentucky County Clerk Kim Davis lost another appeal to delay issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, marking the latest in a mounting stack of rejected appeals.
Doritos unveiled bags of rainbow-colored corn chips on Thursday in support of the It Gets Better Project, an organization founded to "encourage" homosexuals who've been "bullied." The rainbow chips are only available to those who donate $10 to the It Gets Better Project.
Two Tennessee lawmakers filed the "Tennessee Natural Marriage Defense Act" on Thursday. The bill says that no state or local agency may enforce the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling, or any other decision that might allow same-sex "marriage."
In this article, Russel D. Moore explains why evangelicals will not be surrendering to the sexual revolution. He says: "In post-Obergefell America, Evangelicals and other orthodox Christians will be unable to outrun our freakishness. That is no reason for panic. Some will suggest that a Christian sexual ethic puts the churches on the 'wrong side of history.' Well, we’ve been on the wrong side of history since a.d. 33. The 'right side of history' was the Eternal City of Rome. And then the right side of history was the French Revolution. And then the right side of history was scientific naturalism and state socialism. And yet, there stands Jesus still, on the wrong side of history but at the right hand of the Father."
Mike Huckabee doubled down Wednesday on his defense of the Kentucky clerk briefly jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, stating that such accommodations were instead made to Muslim radicals, including Guantanamo Bay detainees.
MONTGOMERY, AL — Following the Emergency Petition that he filed to the Alabama Supreme Court yesterday, Probate Judge Nick Williams filed a Memorandum to support the Petition that stated: "This Court is not obligated to follow a lawless decision because that decision is not the law." "Surely,” Judge Williams argued, "the founders did not intend for there to be arbitrary and unchecked power in one branch of the federal government, with the other branches and the States powerless to act."
MONTGOMERY, AL - On Wednesday, Washington County Probate Judge Nick Williams filed an Emergency Petition to the Supreme Court of Alabama in light of the recent jailing of Kentucky Clerk, Kim Davis. Judge Williams asked the Court for an order declaring the efficacy of the Court’s previous order upholding and enforcing the Alabama Constitution and Alabama’s marriage laws, notwithstanding the decision of the Supreme Court in Obergefell v. Hodges. Judge Williams requested that the ruling include free exercise rights for himself and others in Alabama as protected by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution and Amendment 622 of the Alabama Constitution.
Alabama Probate Judge Nick Williams filed an emergency petition with the Alabama Supreme Court today, asking for "declaratory judgment and/or protective order in light of the jailing of Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis." The court is in conference today.
Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore spoke last week at Eagle Council 2015, an event hosted by Eagle Forum. After reading Martin Niemöller’s poem about Nazi Germany, entitled: "First They Came For The Socialists…," Moore applied it to the recent persecution of Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, "Ladies and Gentlemen, we can say the same thing today. They came for the bakers, I didn’t bake cakes. They came for the florists, but I didn’t deal with flowers. They came for the little clerk down in Kentucky by the name of Kim Davis, but I’m not a clerk, I have nothing do with issuing licenses. Then they came for me, and nobody was left."
TROY CITY, Ohio — Some parents of children at an Ohio school were outraged after the school decided to allow a girl who identifies as a boy to share a bathroom with boys. Troy City Schools hosted a parent and community meeting last Thursday that brought out strong opinions. One parent, pro-life advocate Bryan Kemper, told WDTN, “I think that gender-neutral restrooms should be provided for all students who don’t want to go into one or the other, but my children, my sons, should not have to worry about a female walking into the restroom with them, and my daughters should not have to worry about a male walking into the restroom with them.”
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Embattled Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis "has not demonstrated a substantial likelihood of success" in her legal bid to "exempt" her office from licensing same-sex "marriages," a federal appeals court reiterated Tuesday. One day after Davis was released and returned to work, the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals shot down another of her requests to delay issuing the licenses.
A recent ABC News/Washington Post poll, conducted by phone Sept. 7-10 among a random national sample of 1,003 adults, found that 74 percent of respondents believe that equality under the law is most important, while only 19 percent said that religious beliefs should come first. Furthermore, 63 percent of those surveyed said that Davis should be required to issue marriage licenses, compared to 33 percent who disagreed.
A special appeal panel at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston has upheld the hospital administration’s earlier claim that a physician’s statements to colleagues and staff about the dangers of homosexuality constitute "discrimination," "harassment," and "unprofessional conduct," and that Bible verses regarding homosexuality are similarly "offensive" and discriminatory.
South Carolina is paying approximately $215,000 in legal fees to two couples who challenged the state's constitution, which defines marriage as between one man and one woman, in the federal courts. Same-sex couples sued in federal courts in Charleston and Columbia for the right to be "married" or for South Carolina to recognize their "marriage" performed out of state.
When asked by Megyn Kelly how he would protect people like Kim Davis as president, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee responded, “Well, first of all I would make sure that we recognize that the law and the Constitution is explicit on the First Amendment guarantee of religious liberty. There is nothing in the Constitution whatsoever that gives the federal government jurisdiction over marriage, and that was one of the points that the dissenting justices made. The majority had to come up with this whole idea of the federal oversight of marriage out of thin air. There’s nothing in the law, nothing in the Constitution. We’ve got a federal government that is out of control."
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Florida's court clerks are going to start using new marriage and divorce forms that contain the word "spouse" instead of "husband" and "wife." State officials on Monday began sending the new forms to county clerks. Clerks asked for new forms after Florida officials stopped enforcing the state's same-sex "marriage" ban in January.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Plaintiffs in the U.S. Supreme Court case that attempted to redefine marriage filed paperwork on Friday to seek more than $1.1 million from the state of Ohio as compensation for costs they accrued fighting the state's marriage law. The legal team from private practices and organizations including the American Civil Liberties Union and the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund have also asked for U.S. District Court Judge Timothy S. Black to boost the plaintiffs' reimbursement an extra 50 percent beyond their fees and expenses. Similar claims are being filed in Texas, Michigan and Kentucky.
Dr. Robert A. J. Gagnon comments on Fuller Seminary's decision not to offer tenure to a New Testament professor based on his non-biblical view of marriage. Gagnon says, "Although a decision such as this is never made happily or easily, I am grateful for the courage of senior faculty at Fuller Seminary in asserting the importance of a stance on sexual ethics that Jesus clearly regarded as foundational: a male-female requirement for sexual relations (Mark 10:2-12; Matt 19:3-9). Had Fuller set a precedent of embracing faculty whose position toward sexual ethics was so at odds with Jesus’s own, it would soon have ceased to be an evangelical institution."
Kim Davis, the county clerk in Kentucky who was jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, is back to work today — saying she will neither authorize such licenses nor stand in the way of her deputies if they wish to do so. Flanked by Rowan County Sheriff's deputies and her son, Nathan — a deputy clerk who has also refused to issue same-sex licenses — Davis said she loves God and her job but won't authorize the issuing of marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis said Monday that she will not interfere with her deputies if they keep issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, but she declared they will not be authorized by her and questioned their validity. It was Kim Davis' first day back in the office after spending five days in jail for refusing to follow a federal judge's order. "I don't want to have this conflict. I don't want to be in the spotlight. And I certainly don't want to be a whipping post," Davis said, reading from a handwritten statement outside the courthouse where she works. "I am no hero. I'm just a person that's been transformed by the grace of God, who wants to work, be with my family. I just want to serve my neighbors quietly without violating my conscience."
Republican presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said Thursday that since Arkansas hasn't changed its laws to accommodate same-sex "marriages," county clerks could rightfully withhold licenses from same-sex couples. Huckabee didn't say the clerks should flout the court decision, but said they should "follow the only law they have in front of them." Current Gov. Asa Hutchinson and Attorney General Leslie Rutledge have told Arkansas clerks to comply with the June U.S. Supreme Court's same-sex "marriage" opinion.
Bobby Jindal is the latest Republican presidential candidate to support the Kentucky county clerk who was jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. The Louisiana governor says Kim Davis "shouldn't have to give up her Christian beliefs simply because she's a clerk of court.'' Jindal said if he's elected president, he'll issue an executive order protecting the religious rights of those who believe marriage is the union of a man and a woman.