Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
By John Mack Freeman One of my unofficial policies about putting together the GLBT News each week is that I try to avoid feeding the trolls. I try not to write articles or share information that hateful people have said or done simply so that they would receive attention. I don’t want to give them any larger […]
By John Mack Freeman In Alabama, legislators are once again considering getting the government out of the marriage business. The Alabama State Senate approved a bill that would get rid of state-issued marriage licenses and instead have couples register their union with the state for benefits purposes. This is to avoid judges having to sign marriage licenses […]
By John Mack Freeman Much of the media has been following the unfolding story surrounding Kim Davis, the clerk of court for Rowan County, Kentucky. Davis had refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. After being sued, she lost in a federal district court, and emergency appeals for stays to both the Sixth Circuit […]
By John Mack Freeman The ongoing saga of marriage licenses in Rowan County, Kentucky continued this week. US District Judge David Bunning ruled this week that Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis’s religious beliefs do no exempt her from performing the duties of her office. Davis had previously objected to having to provide marriage licenses to same-sex […]
By John Mack Freeman After the Supreme Court’s Obergefell decision made same-sex marriage the law of the land, county clerks in several conservative districts have refused to acknowledge the right of same-sex couples to get married. Leaning on arguments that their religious freedom is being violated by having to serve same-sex couples equally, clerks in Texas, Kentucky, […]