Tag: Rowan County

A pepper spray demonstration at a Naval base (image courtesy U. S. Navy, part of public domain)

Backlash Prompts NC School System To Rethink ‘Defensive Tool’ For Bathrooms...

Earlier this week, a North Carolina school system made national news when it voted to allow high school students to carry pepper spray--supposedly as...
Mugshot of Kim Davis (courtesy Carter County Detention Center via NBC News)

Kim Davis’ Attorneys Throw In Towel, Admit Same-Sex Marriage Licenses Are...

For most of the summer, Kim Davis fought tooth and nail to keep from issuing marriage licenses to LGBT couples. The clerk of Rowan...

Kim Davis To Fox News: Only Christians Have ‘Valid’ Right To...

Less than 24 hours after her train-wreck interview on ABC's "Good Morning America," Kim Davis sat down for what should have been a friendlier...
Mugshot of Kim Davis (courtesy Carter County Detention Center via NBC News)

Kim Davis: I’m At Risk For ‘Irreparable Injury’ If I Resume...

Kim Davis seemed to be showing signs of coming to her senses when she was released from jail on Tuesday. After all, the Rowan...
Mike Huckabee playing at Thomas Road Baptist Church in 2008 (courtesy Wikimedia Commons)

Mike Huckabee Uses Kim Davis Affair For Fundraising

While most of the Republican field has expressed varying degrees of support for jailed Rowan County, Kentucky clerk Kim Davis, none of them have...

Fake Letter Written By Kim Davis Contained Misquoted Bible Passage –...

UPDATE: Buzzfeed has reported the letter IS a fake. I'd feel like an idiot except I assumed it was fake and Christian supporters didn't even...
Mugshot of Kim Davis (courtesy Carter County Detention Center via NBC News)

KY Marriage License Farce Ends; Deputy Clerks Issue Licenses In Boss...

After two months, a lawless situation in Rowan County, Kentucky is finally over. Yesterday, county clerk Kim Davis was held in contempt of court...

Franklin Graham Throws Support To Homophobic County Clerk Kim Davis

Anyone who's followed the religious right knows that Franklin Graham is nowhere near the man that his father, Billy Graham, was. In recent years,...

Federal Judge Summons KY Clerk Who Won’t Issue Marriage License To...

Kim Davis is a slow learner. With the failure of her last-ditch appeal to the federal Supreme Court yesterday, the county clerk of Rowan...

KY County Attorney Asks State To Push Out County Clerk Kim...

Recently, whenever you mention Kim Davis, most people wonder how she still has her job as county clerk of Rowan County, Kentucky. After all,...
Camryn and Alexis Colen (courtesy The [Ashland] Independent)

Homophobic KY County Clerk Pwned By Trans Couple

The county clerk of Rowan County, Kentucky, Kim Davis, has become a darling of the religious right for refusing to grant marriage licenses to...

KY County Clerk Defies Court, STILL Won’t Issue Marriage Licenses To...

You may recall that last month, Kim Davis, the county clerk of Rowan County, Kentucky, made national news when she was caught on tape...