Indicted GOP governor of Kentucky declares emergency in order to repeal benefits for gay couples

Posted on Wednesday 31 December 1969

[AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth] The sitting Governor of Kentucky is considering calling the state legislature into a special session to pass a law preventing the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville from providing domestic partner benefits for unmarried and same-sex partners of their employees. The Governor is in a difficult primary (he was indicted last year) and is apparently holding this out as a reward for the mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging base if they support him. It’s ironic that he used the Terri Schiavo “special session” excuse for addressing yet another religious right “emergency. …


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