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Log Cabin Republicans Applaud Metro Council Republicans for Voting ‘Yes’ for Fairness for Homosexual Rights
Local (Louisville, KY) Kentucky’s Log Cabin Republicans praise Louisville Metro Council President Kelly Downard (photographed left) and Council members Julie Adams, Ellen Call, Ken Fleming, and Kevin Kramer (click names for additional information) for voting to renew the ‘Fairness Ordinance’. Log Cabin Kentucky President Jimmy LaSalvia said, “The Fairness supporters represent the future of our party. They are leading our party forward, while the opponents will be left behind on the wrong side of history.”

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 KYRepublicanVoice Editorial

Editorial by Bryan J. Mills "Louisville Fairness Vote Does Not Represent Views of Most Kentuckians"
This week the Louisville Metro City Council voted 19 to 6 to re-enact a local “Fairness“Ordinance that would officially ban discrimination in the city of Louisville. Such measures as this have always puzzled me that elected officials believe they can use legislation to change the hearts and minds of their fellow citizens. I am also perplexed by the necessity of such legislation since both the United States Constitution and the Kentucky State Constitution provide all citizens the rights of equality under the law.

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Kentucky Republican Events

Dec. 13th – Republican State Representative James Comer to Address Issue of Tobacco Tax in 2005 General Assembly on Kentucky Tonight

Tobacco Tax

Monday, December 13 at 8:00 pm ET/7:00 CT on KET1

Scheduled Guests:

State Rep. James Comer, R-Tompkinsville

State Rep. Mary Lou Marzian, D-Louisville

Mike Kuntz, director of education and advocacy for the American Lung Association of Kentucky

Chris Derry, president of the Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions

Guest Columnists

Guest Column by David Zipp: "Supporting and Defending the Constitution by Banning the Military Recruiter?"

I was shocked to read a report recently from the Center for Security Policy. Recently, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled that colleges have a First Amendment right to ban military recruiters from their public campuses if they wish to protest the Department of Defense’s policy of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” regarding homosexuals serving in the military. At issue was the Solomon Amendment, a law that began in 1995 that rightfully prohibited the federal government from disbursing money to colleges and university that place barriers to campus recruiting by the military.

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