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Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin Promotes And Enables Bigoted Discrimination Against Minorities

Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin, a Republican, has sided with a printing company that refused to print t-shirts for an LGBT group.

Bevin has submitted an amicus brief to the Kentucky Supreme Court in support of Hands On Originals, the Lexington printing company that in 2012 refused to print t-shirts for Lexington's Pride Festival, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported. Citing his Christian beliefs, co-owner Blaine Adamson refused the order from Lexington's Pride Community Services Organization (PCSO), which organizes the annual event.

PCSO filed a complaint with the Lexington Human Rights Commission, which ruled that Hands On Originals had violated a city ordinance that prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation. Adamson was ordered to get diversity training. But a state judge overturned the ruling and an appeals court affirmed the decision. The commission appealed the ruling to the state's highest court.

Bevin's lawyers argue that requiring Hands On Originals' owners to print t-shirts “promoting homosexuality” would violate the Kentucky Constitution's religious freedom and freedom of conscience guarantees.

“For over two centuries, the Commonwealth of Kentucky has protected its citizens’ right to act according to their conscience,” said Steve Pitt, the governor's general counsel. “This important case, which has attracted national attention, tests whether Kentucky’s history of safeguarding freedom of conscience will continue or be curtailed. Requiring Hands-On’s owners to engage in speech with which they disagree is a violation of their freedom of conscience, and we are hopeful that the Kentucky Supreme Court will reaffirm this bedrock of Kentucky’s constitutional charter.”

Hands On Originals' owners argue that they object to the message that there is “pride in being gay,” though the shirt they refused to print only says “Lexington Pride Festival” in rainbow colors.

Adam Rippon Wins Bronze In First Event

Adam Rippon made history Monday when he won a bronze medal for his first performance.
The first openly gay American to compete in the Winter Olympics has softened his approach to US Vice President Mike Pence.
Ice skater Adam Rippon said he would refuse to meet President Trump’s VP, who is leading the US delegation in South Korea, due to his opposition to LGBT rights. 

Responding to the announcement that Pence was to lead the delegation on USA Today, Rippon said: “You mean Mike Pence, the same Mike Pence that funded gay conversion therapy? I’m not buying it.”
“I don’t think he has a real concept of reality,” Rippon said of Pence.

“To stand by some of the things that Donald Trump has said and for Mike Pence to say he’s a devout Christian man is completely contradictory.

“If he’s okay with what’s being said about people and Americans and foreigners and about different countries that are being called ‘shitholes,’ I think he should really go to church.”
But after pumping the air in exhilaration following his free skate in the figure skating team event Rippon appeared to change his mind.
“Yes of course,” he said, when asked by AFP if he would accept a meeting with Pence.
Rippon made history when he took a bronze medal for Team USA at the Winter Olympics on Monday morning after giving a spectacular debut performance.
Skating to Coldplay’s “O” and “Arrival of the Birds” by Cinematic Orchestra, Rippon was awarded a score of 172.98, giving the team an extra eight points.
Canadian skater Eric Radford took gold, followed by Russia who took silver.
Radford, who is also an out gay skater, will compete again in the pairs tournament while Rippon will perform another men’s single.
Speaking after his performance, Rippon said:“I want to throw up. I want to go over to the judges and say, ‘Can I just have a Xanax and a quick drink? I’ll be fine.’ But I kept it together.”
Rippon said that if he were offered the chance to meet the VP after performing, he could be interested to talk – but only if Pence had an open mind.
“If I had the chance to meet him afterwards, after I’m finished competing, there might be a possibility to have an open conversation,” Rippon said.
“He seems more mild-mannered than Donald Trump. But I don’t think the current administration represents the values that I was taught growing up.
“Mike Pence doesn’t stand for anything that I really believe in.”

Canadian Eric Radford First Openly Gay Man To Win Gold Medal At Winter Olympics

Canadian figure skater Eric Radford has won gold at the Winter Olympics in South Korea, making him the first openly gay man to win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics.

Radford and skating partner Meagan Duhamel came in first place in the free skate program in the team event. Their routine Sunday morning was set to Adele's Hometown Glory.

“This is amazing!” Radford tweeted. “I literally feel like I might explode with pride. #Olympics. #outandproud.”

Radford, 33, came out gay in 2014 after he and Duhamel finished seventh at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

Radford is engaged to Spanish ice dancer Luis Fenero.

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Mike Pence Tells Gay Olympian His Anti-Gay Views Are "Fake News"

From Pink News:
Vice President Mike Pence has claimed his anti-gay views are “fake news” – after criticism from gay Olympic athletes.
Ahead of his trip to South Korea this month as head of the Winter Olympic delegation, Pence has been making enemies among the LGBT athletes set to represent the US. 

When gay figure skater Adam Rippon challenged the Vice President’s concerning stances on LGBT equality, Pence put out a statement suggesting that the athlete had misled the public.
And freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy, who has been at the forefront of the US delegation’s publicity campaign, also said that Pence’s presence will send a negative message.

But Pence, who has the worst record on LGBT rights of any President or Vice President in recent history, again hit back at the criticism today.
In tweets, he branded his record “fake news” and a “nonstory”.
He said: ““Headed to the Olympics to cheer on #TeamUSA. One reporter trying to distort 18 yr old nonstory to sow seeds of division. We won’t let that happen! #FAKENEWS. Our athletes are the best in the world and we are for ALL of them! #TEAMUSA”
Tweeting at Rippon he added: “I want you to know we are FOR YOU. Don’t let fake news distract you. I am proud of you and ALL OF OUR GREAT athletes and my only hope for you and all of #TeamUSA is to bring home the gold. Go get ‘em!”
But while Pence may be playing a moderate as a question mark dangles over the future of Trump’s Presidency, his extreme anti-LGBT record is far from made up.
A hardline evangelical who has not supported a single LGBT reform across nearly two decades in politics, VP Pence has one of the worst records on equality of any President or Vice President in recent memory.
Pence previously suggested that HIV prevention funding be drained in order to fund state-sponsored ‘gay cure’ therapy.
 On a 2000 Congressional campaign website, he wrote: “Congress should support the re-authorization of the [HIV funding] Ryan White Care Act only after completion of an audit to ensure that federal dollars were no longer being given to organisations that celebrate and encourage the types of behaviors that facilitate the spreading of the HIV virus. Resources should be directed toward those institutions which provide assistance to those seeking to change their sexual behavior.”
While serving as Governor of Indiana, Pence stirred up international outrage in 2015 when he signed Indiana’s controversial ‘Religious Freedom Restoration Act’, giving businesses the right to discriminate against gay people on the grounds of religion.

Pence claimed the law was intended to “protect” organisations from having to provide services for same-sex weddings, saying: “I support the freedom of religion for every Hoosier [Indiana citizen] of every faith.
“The Constitution of the United States and the Indiana Constitution both provide strong recognition of the freedom of religion but today, many people of faith feel their religious liberty is under attack.”
He appeared unable to answer when asked whether it should be legal to fire people because of their sexuality.
In a clip, Pence was asked: “Yes or no: do you believe gay and transgender people should be able to be fired from their jobs just for that reason only?”
After an awkward ten-second silence, Pence attempted to stall, responding: “It’s a great privilege to be your Governor.”

Fudging a response, he said: “My position as I expressed in the state of the State address is that we are a state with a constitution, and as you know… that constitution has very strong safeguards for freedom of conscience and freedom of religion.”
During the Presidential campaign, Pence backed plans to roll back Barack Obama’s executive protections on LGBT rights, so that “the transgender bathroom issue can be resolved with common sense at the local level”.
He said: “This is such an example of an administration that seems to have… there’s no area of our lives too small for them to want to regulate, no aspect of our constitution too large for them to ignore.
“Donald Trump and I both believe these questions can be resolved with common sense at the local level.”
“These issues are resolved in the state of Indiana whenever they come up, and they should be resolved, for the safety and well-being of our children first and foremost, their privacy and rights, and with common sense. Donald Trump and I simply believe all of these issues are best resolved at the state level, by communities.”
He added: “Washington has no business intruding on the operation of our local schools. It’s just one more example of the heavy hand of this administration, and Donald Trump and I will stand by those common-sense people that when it comes to our kids, and the operation of our schools, those decisions should be made at the local level.
“Washington DC has no business imposing its bill and its values on communities around the nation.”
 Decades of proof have not stopped Pence from attempting to rewrite his deeply anti-LGBT record, however.
He abruptly started denying his support for gay cure therapy in December 2016, one month before he was sworn in as Vice President – despite never once trying to correct public reports about his well-known views in the 16 years beforehand.
Pence is reported to be behind many of the anti-LGBT actions taken by the Trump administration, supporting Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ bid to roll back anti-discrimination protections for gay people.

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