by Richard Nelson | Jul 29, 2014 | Blog
Last night Richard Nelson participated in a panel for a spirited discussion on KET’s Kentucky Tonight program. The topic was the recent Hobby Lobby Supreme Court decision. Nelson was joined by Amy Cubbage of the Kentucky ACLU; Samuel Marcosson, professor...
by Richard Nelson | Jul 29, 2014 | Blog
Last night Richard Nelson participated in a panel for a spirited discussion on KET’s Kentucky Tonight program. The topic was the recent Hobby Lobby Supreme Court decision. Nelson was joined by Amy Cubbage of the Kentucky ACLU; Samuel Marcosson, professor...
by Richard Nelson | Jul 26, 2014 | Blog
The “Growing Up Transgender" panel discussion hosted in Louisville earlier this month revealed something even more troubling about our culture and how we think than it does about the tortured souls who believe they are trapped in the bodies of the wrong...
by Richard Nelson | Jul 24, 2014 | Blog
Murray State University can rest easy tonight knowing they have courageously stood on the right side of history with their….restrooms? Yes, apparently lavatories are now the artifacts of historic social progress. Murray State’s administration, following...
by Richard Nelson | Jul 24, 2014 | Blog
Murray State University can rest easy tonight knowing they have courageously stood on the right side of history with their….restrooms? Yes, apparently lavatories are now the artifacts of historic social progress. Murray State’s administration, following...
by Richard Nelson | Jul 22, 2014 | Blog
I join the editors of The Courier Journal in urging Senator Mitch McConnell and challenger Alison Grimes to “stop debating debates.” The Courier gets the right message out, even if the editorial obscures the unwillingness of Grimes to debate the Senate...
by Richard Nelson | Jul 17, 2014 | Blog
The American Legislative Exchange Counsel (ALEC) has released their 2014 state by state economic forecast. The report, called Rich States, Poor States, explains its methodology and philosophy thus: The Economic Outlook Ranking is a forecast based on a...
by Richard Nelson | Jul 15, 2014 | Blog
Will the real Steve Beshear please stand up? The Kentucky governor received commendation from commonwealth conservatives for arguing on behalf of Kentucky’s traditional definition of marriage. But since then it has become less clear just how committed the...
by Richard Nelson | Jul 11, 2014 | Blog
When Judge John Heyburn struck down Kentucky’s constitutional law defining marriage on July 1, he did so on dubious grounds—appealing to the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment which essentially says that all citizens must be treated...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 28, 2014 | Blog
Dear editor Kentucky New Era, Last Saturday’s paper included two stories promoting homosexual literature to parents and children. One article entitled, “Writer David Levithan on LGBT books for the young,” states that “[t]he best thing parents...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 26, 2014 | Blog
On Monday, the Supreme Court will reveal its important ruling in the case of Hobby Lobby, Conestoga Wood and the Affordable Care Act's contraceptive mandate. The President's healthcare legislation seeks to require all employers to include contraceptive care in...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 23, 2014 | Blog
Earlier this month Google initiated a major blow for the internet pornography industry when it announced it would no longer accept advertising for sexually explicit material. While this decision won't make pornographic material inaccessible through Google's...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 19, 2014 | Blog
Earlier this week, President Obama announced an executive order prohibiting federal contract workers from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. The use of an executive order to enforce a policy that does not actually exist is...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 13, 2014 | Blog
Casey Mattox of Family Research Council has responded to Planned Parenthood’s “Clergy Advocacy Board Statement,” an open, “pastoral” letter encouraging people to not assume that “all religious clergy disapprove of abortion.”...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 13, 2014 | Blog
Casey Mattox of Family Research Council has responded to Planned Parenthood’s “Clergy Advocacy Board Statement,” an open, “pastoral” letter encouraging people to not assume that “all religious clergy disapprove of abortion.”...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 12, 2014 | Blog
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has lost his bid for re-election in Virginia District 7’s Republican primary. His opponent, economics professor and Tea Party-backed David Brat, won a resounding victory that will be discussed for many, many days to come. I...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 6, 2014 | Blog
As a relevant follow up to Wednesday’s post covering the Atherton high school’s new transgender policy, this piece by Kevin Williamson at National Review is worth your time. Williamson’s words are brief but get to the heart of the transgender...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 5, 2014 | Blog
What do you say when a teenaged boy dressed like a girl insists upon using bathrooms of the opposite sex? Most would rather politely decline to comment, including yours truly. Yet the Atherton High School Site Based Decision Making Council (SBDM) codified their...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 4, 2014 | Blog
When two “rights” collide, who wins? For those who espouse moral relativism, the answer usually comes down to politics, utility, and cultural accommodation. Rather than principled debate, raw political power is wielded in order to learn who bests who. This...
by Richard Nelson | May 30, 2014 | Blog
Reports of the demise of GOP solidarity have been greatly exaggerated. True, pundits enjoyed fantasizing about a “civil war” within Republican ranks between the mainline candidates and the Tea Party wing. An example of that intramural rift was supposed to...
