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KY Supreme Court rejects state funding for Baptist college Print E-mail
Friday, April 23, 2010, 9:11 am

Reprinted from the Courier-Journal

By:  Deborah Yetter  April 22, 2010

The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday that the legislature violated the state constitution’s ban on public funding for religious education when it allocated $10 million to build a pharmacy school at a Baptist college in southeastern Kentucky.

By a 5-2 vote, the court also struck down as unconstitutional a provision that allocated $1 million for scholarships to the proposed pharmacy school at the University of the Cumberlands in Williamsburg.

The last-minute addition of the construction and scholarship money to the 2006-08 state budget was engineered by Senate President David Williams, a Burkesville Republican whose district includes the university.

The state had not released any funds while the legal challenge was pending.

The court’s opinion, written by Justice Lisabeth Hughes Abramson of Louisville, said the appropriation was a clear constitutional violation.

“If Kentucky needs to expand the opportunities for pharmacy school education within the commonwealth, the Kentucky General Assembly may most certainly address that pressing public need, but not by appropriating public funds to an educational institution that is religiously affiliated,” Abramson wrote.

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Coalition organizes for daily protests at WKU Print E-mail
Monday, March 22, 2010, 8:29 am

This article first appeared on Friday March 19, 2010 in the Bowling Green Daily News.  It features ACLU of Kentucky Board Member Patricia Minter, who has been working tirelessly with faculty and students to implement domestic partner benefits at Western KY University.  The ACLU of Kentucky and our Fairness Coalition partners support these efforts and encourage all fair-minded Kentuckians to do the same.


LIZ SWITZER, The Daily News, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it /783-3240
Published: March 19, 2010


A coalition of faculty and students at Western Kentucky University is
organizing to protest recent action by the school’s Benefits Committee
to deny benefits to same-sex and opposite sex unmarried couples.

Faculty regent Patricia Minter and Student Government Association
President Kevin Smiley both publicly expressed disappointment at the
committee’s decision at a University Senate meeting Thursday, calling
for WKU President Gary Ransdell to intervene. Ransdell, who arrived at
the meeting after the comments were made, said he has no such plans to
do so. If he did intend to step into the fray, “we wouldn’t need a
benefits committee,” Ransdell said after the meeting.

The committee, whose decisions are nonbinding, meets regularly and “will
continue to address” the issue and “consider their options,” Ransdell said.

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Playing Politics With Women's Bodies Print E-mail
Tuesday, March 16, 2010, 8:05 am

This letter to the Editor appeared in the March 15th edition of the Courier-Journal.

After reading Representative Floyd’s defense of the amendments put forth by him, Representatives Moore and Fischer it is necessary to clarify and correct many of the points he made.

Representative Floyd is playing politics with women’s health. Don’t be fooled by his legislative wheeling and dealing.  What’s really important here is that Representative Floyd is trying to push through legislation that will interfere in women’s personal private medical decisions. And if we get lost in the legislative smoke and mirrors, he might just succeed.  Here’s the real impact of these amendments:
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