Tag Archives: Kentucky

The famed/infamous Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky has announced plans to build a “full-scale replica” of Noah’s Ark. SRSLY. The $24.5 million project will be constructed by the same team that built the Creation Museum. The religious ministry is soliciting online donations to help construct the project, which they expect to draw an estimated 1.6 million visitors per year. Ken …

Matt Yglesias has the best tweet in reaction to the networks calling teabagger Rand Paul as the Senate winner from Kentucky: “Finally we have a Senator willing to stand up the tyranny of the Civil Rights Act!”

The Victory Fund reports that Lexington, Kentucky, the state’s second-largest city, has elected openly gay candidate Jim Gray as mayor. Vice-Mayor Jim Gray was victorious tonight in his second campaign for the city’s top job, beating incumbent Mayor Jim Newberry. This is a tremendous victory for Lexington, for Kentucky’s LGBT community and for fairness. We are proud of Jim Gray …

The crazy acorn doesn’t fall far from the Wingnut Tree.

Yesterday Matthew Vanderpool, an openly gay candidate for the Kentucky state legislature, issued a press release declaring that he had rejected campaign donations from the Victory Fund because he didn’t want to be in their “back pocket.” Vanderpool said that while he is gay, he “has no gay agenda” and that being gay “does not define my entire life or …

After 24 hours of nonstop ridicule and outrage from all quarters, Kentucky GOP Senate candidate Rand Paul is trying to spin his way out of his Civil Rights Act mess.

And he’s got a message to America from the Tea Party.

Saying there is not enough evidence to support felony charges, a judge in Kentucky has reduced the attempted murder charges against two teenage girls who have been accused of trying to throw a lesbian classmate off a cliff. After a hearing Thursday, District Judge Henria Bailey-Lewis reduced the charges against Ashley Sams and Corinne Schwab to fourth-degree assault and menacing, …

Lawyers for the three Kentucky girls charged with attempting to murder a lesbian classmate are claiming that the entire incident was a staged prank with the full participation of the victim. Cheyenne Williams, 18, and supporters have said that on April 16, three girls with whom she’d been friends for years took her against her will to picturesque Flat Lick …

Three high school girls in Kentucky have been charged with kidnapping and attempting to murder an openly lesbian classmate by pushing her off of a cliff. The attack took place on the Day Of Silence, which some students at the school observed as the anti-gay Day Of Truth, as instructed by Christian hate groups. Cheyenne Williams, 18, of McKee, signed …

By a general voice vote, the Kentucky House of Representatives yesterday adopted a resolution expressing support for the anti-gay Manhattan Declaration, which calls for the disobedience of all LGBT rights laws. Kentucky already has among the most repressive of anti-gay laws, including a constitutional DOMA and a legislative ban on the recognition of same-sex unions. (Via – Good As You)

A Kentucky high school football coach included an extra stop during a field trip with his players. A mother is angry about a trip led by the head football coach at Breckinridge County High School. The coach took about 20 players on a school bus late last month to his church, where nearly half of them — including her son …

McDonald’s has settled a complaint brought by the ACLU on behalf of five gay customers who were verbally abused by a restaurant staffer at a Louisville, Kentucky outlet. Nine months after an employee at a McDonald’s restaurant in downtown Louisville called a group of gay customers a series of anti-gay slurs, the American Civil Liberties Union announced today that McDonald’s …