A federal jury awarded a gay couple $100,000 after they sued former Kentucky clerk Kim Davis for refusing to grant two same-sex couples, David Ermold and David Moore, and, James Yates and Will Smith, marriage licenses.
Davis was found guilty of violating the couple’s constitutional rights and was voted out as a Rowan County clerk. She cited religious beliefs as her reason for denying the license.
Davis also spent time in jail over her refusal to perform her duties of her office. She was later freed after her staff issued the licenses on her behalf, but her name was removed. The incident involving Davis would later influence the Kentucky state legislature to enact a law that removed the names of all county clerks from state marriage licenses.
The Ashland jury awarded Ermold and Moore $50,000 each, while Yates and Smith received no damages in a ruling by U.S. District Judge David Bunning.
Davis was found guilty of violating the couple’s constitutional rights and was voted out as a Rowan County clerk. She cited religious beliefs as her reason for denying the license.
Davis also spent time in jail over her refusal to perform her duties of her office. She was later freed after her staff issued the licenses on her behalf, but her name was removed. The incident involving Davis would later influence the Kentucky state legislature to enact a law that removed the names of all county clerks from state marriage licenses.
The Ashland jury awarded Ermold and Moore $50,000 each, while Yates and Smith received no damages in a ruling by U.S. District Judge David Bunning.
- 9/20/2023
- by Zach Ament
- Uinterview
Jason Rapert has likened himself to an Old Testament seer, conveying hard truths on behalf of an angry God. On his broadcast Save the Nation, the 50-year-old preacher and former Arkansas state senator calls himself a “proud” Christian Nationalist, insisting: “I reject that being a Christian Nationalist is somehow unseemly or wrong.”
Long a shadowy force in American politics, Christian Nationalism is having a coming out party. The movement seeks a fusion of fundamentalist theology with American civic life. “They believe that this country was founded for Christians like them,...
Long a shadowy force in American politics, Christian Nationalism is having a coming out party. The movement seeks a fusion of fundamentalist theology with American civic life. “They believe that this country was founded for Christians like them,...
- 2/23/2023
- by Tim Dickinson
- Rollingstone.com
At an evangelical victory party in front of the Supreme Court to celebrate the downfall of Roe v. Wade last week, a prominent Capitol Hill religious leader was caught on a hot mic making a bombshell claim: that she prays with sitting justices inside the high court. “We’re the only people who do that,” Peggy Nienaber said.
This disclosure was a serious matter on its own terms, but it also suggested a major conflict of interest. Nienaber’s ministry’s umbrella organization, Liberty Counsel, frequently brings lawsuits before the Supreme Court.
This disclosure was a serious matter on its own terms, but it also suggested a major conflict of interest. Nienaber’s ministry’s umbrella organization, Liberty Counsel, frequently brings lawsuits before the Supreme Court.
- 7/6/2022
- by Kara Voght and Tim Dickinson
- Rollingstone.com
Christian groups have slammed the remake of cult 1974 movie Black Christmas, because they find the horror movie "offensive." The Glen Morgan-directed film stars Oliver Hudson, Katie Cassidy, Lacey Chabert and Michelle Trachtenberg and centers on a group of US college students who battle a slasher over the Christmas holidays. The movie will be released on Christmas Day in US cinemas, much to the horror of Christian groups. Mathew Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, says, "To have a movie that emphasizes murder and mayhem at Christmas, a time of celebration and joy around the world seems to be ill founded." Jennifer Giroux, co-founder of Operation Just Say Merry Christmas, adds, "The use of religious music 'Silent Night' and the nativity set on the front porch in one scene are insensitive to Christians. It's not enough to ignore and omit Christmas, but now it has to be offended, insulted and desecrated. Our most sacred holiday, actually a holy day, is being assaulted."...
- 12/18/2006
- WENN
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