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The Christian owner of a Kentucky print shop who has spent years fighting for his right not to create “gay pride” T-shirts has taken his case to the state Supreme Court. Blaine Adamson is the owner of Hands On Originals Christian Outfitters, a Lexington company that advertises "high quality, customized Christian apparel.” For the past several years, he has been fighting the Lexington Human Rights Commission over his polite refusal of the Gay and Lesbian Services Organization’s (now called the Pride Community Services Organization) request to print shirts for the Lexington Pride Festival. The Kentucky Court of Appeals sided with Adamson in 2017, and the Kentucky Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case Friday, NBC News reported. “For the last seven years, the government has tried to punish me for declining to print a message that violated my conscience,” Adamson told the public outside the court chamber. “So far, the lower courts have upheld my freedom as a creative ...

A Catholic church in the heart of Appalachia has attracted media attention for the Gay Pride Month banner stretched across its front lawn. The local ordinary, Bishop John Stowe, has a record of collaborating with a group that rejects Catholic moral teaching, and his spokesperson says individual parishes may decide if they want to promote the homosexual cause. The rainbow banner in front of St. Paul’s parish in Lexington, Kentucky proclaims: LGBTQ+ CATHOLIC FAMILY, FRIENDS & ALLIES ALL ARE WELCOME “Making this kind of statement is a decision a spokesperson for the Diocese of Lexington says is up to each parish,” according to a  local TV news report . The parish’s pastor sent, Father Chris Clay, sent an  email  to parishioners saying the banner showcasing the symbol of the homosexual cause is a “small way of counter-acting any experiences of hostility, rejection, and silent treatment that LGBTQ Catholics may have experienced from ...

The state of California has ordered a travel ban for its government employees to states that have adopted laws to protect religious freedom. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra , a pro-abortion Democrat, has  unilaterally prohibited all state-sanctioned trips  to Alabama , Kentucky, South Dakota , and Texas because those states have passed legislation allowing those who uphold natural marriage and biological gender to live by their sincerely-held beliefs. Becerra’s actions are designed to pressure target states to abandon religious freedom laws protecting Christians who oppose sodomy and/or disagree with gender theory.   The latest four additions bring California’s “No Visiting List” to eight states in the lower 48, or eight percent of the country. Becerra noted his reasons for adding the four states: Alabama enacted a law in May that allows Christian adoption agencies to follow their faith’s moral criteria for placing children in homes. Their ...

A Kentucky family court judge won’t hear adoption applications by “practicing homosexuals ” because he believes such adoptions are never in the child’s best interest. Judge W. Mitchell Nance released an order  April 27  stating he’s ethically required under the state’s judicial code of conduct to recuse himself from cases where he has a “ personal bias or prejudice.” He wrote that he believed as “a matter of conscience” that “under no circumstance” would “the best interest of the child … be promoted by the adoption” by a “practicing homosexual.” And because his “conscientious objection to the concept of adoption of a child by a practicing homosexual” could be seen as a “personal bias or prejudice,” Nance disqualified himself from hearing all such cases. Nance’s order was sent out to all attorneys in Metcalfe and Barren counties and directed them to inform the court when they had adoption applications by homosexual parties so another judge could take the...

A federal appeal court has revived a homosexual couple’s claim for damages against Kentucky clerk Kim Davis for refusing to sign their marriage licence . In August 2016, U.S. District Judge David Bunning tossed out as moot three lawsuits against Davis, citing Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin ’s  executive order  that allowed marriage licences to be printed without the issuing clerk’s name on them. A clerk in Rowan County and a born-again  Apostolic Christian , Davis was willing to issue marriage licenses to homosexual couples but had asked for a religious exemption not to sign her name to them, because she believed doing so would endorse homosexuality. But in a  May 2 ruling , three judges on 6th U.S. Circuit Appeal Court reversed Bunning’s decision on the lawsuit brought against Davis by homosexual couple David Ermold and David Moore. They ruled Ermold and Moore were not suing against a general policy but were seeking “damages for a particularized harm al...

Homosexual marriage changes everything. I and others have made this warning for decades now. And on a daily basis we see the frightening truth of this. Everyone is impacted by such radical social and legal changes. We are all at risk. And Christians are especially being targeted. I have documented numerous cases of anti- Christian bigotry both in my books and on my website. One could monitor all this on a full time basis, and still have a hard time keeping up. Here are more cases of the attack on faith and freedom by the homosexual militants. But these are also stories of courageous Christian resistance. Here I offer three recent stories coming out of North America of steadfast believers who have refused to bow the knee to the rainbow gods, but have stood fast, even when that means suffering very real consequences. The first story comes from Illinois: A Christian’s 14-year career is being threatened because he refused to watch a training video on lesbian, homosexual, bi...

On June 26, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its opinions in two highly anticipated cases involving same-sex marriage, one from California and the other from New York . But what really happened? What did the Supreme Court actually say and what is the law? And what does it all mean for Kentucky ? As a family court judge for nearly 10 years, I pay more attention to the details of this marriage issue than most. Perhaps I can help. All most people, even lawyers, seem to understand is that "they" won or "we" won, depending on which side you fall. On the day of the decision, television showed an avalanche of gay celebration. If it was a football game they would have been tearing down the goalposts. Defenders of traditional marriage between a man and a woman were crestfallen. They went underground and silent in the wave of gay and lesbian celebrants. So what happened? Hollingsworth vs. Perry was a California case. United States vs. Windsor was a New York case. Advocates...

Kentucky's only Democratic congressman did not eat the ham on Thursday. As Gov. Matt Bevin and U.S. Sens. Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul arrived at the annual Kentucky Country Ham Breakfast, Rep. John Yarmuth demonstrated outside with a small group of gay rights activists. They targeted the Kentucky Farm Bureau's highest-profile event to protest the organization's conservative stands on social issues including same-sex marriage and abortion. The Farm Bureau is "on the wrong side" of history and the law with its stand opposing same-sex marriage, argued Yarmuth, a five-term congressman from Louisville. "My entire complaint with them is, why do you get involved in these emotional social issues that have no relation to farming and that alienate people who would otherwise be supportive of your agricultural agenda?" he said. The Farm Bureau is one of the state's most influential lobbying organizations, with nearly 470,000 members. A mix of pork, politica...

A leading LGBT website is bashing Kentucky clerks for wanting to differentiate between same-sex and opposite-sex couples when issuing marriage licenses. Earlier this week, the investigative website MuckRock.com   published more than 400 e-mails   from embattled Kentucky clerk Kim Davis . Those e-mails showed that 54 of the state's 93 clerks preferred to have separate marriage licenses for same-sex and opposite-sex couples. "' Separate but equal ,' the same old Jim Crow argument that was used to defend 'whites only' lunch counters and segregated schools, has resurfaced," wrote Contributing Editor Jean Esselink for The New Civil Rights Movement (TNCRM). "The words may be different but the underlying concept is the same, except that this time it's being used by Kentucky county clerks who would like to make marriages by same-sex couples separate but equal to marriages by heterosexuals." Homosexuality is a choice - race is not. Ho...