by Richard Nelson | Aug 26, 2014 | Blog
Richard Dawkins, arguably the most famous evolutionary biologist in the world right now, recently offered his perspective via Twitter on unborn babies that are diagnosed with Down syndrome. He responded to a question about what to do if an unborn child is determined...
by Richard Nelson | Aug 26, 2014 | Blog
Richard Dawkins, arguably the most famous evolutionary biologist in the world right now, recently offered his perspective via Twitter on unborn babies that are diagnosed with Down syndrome. He responded to a question about what to do if an unborn child is determined...
by Richard Nelson | Aug 22, 2014 | Blog
There’s a surreal quality about the way same sex marriage advocates so ruthlessly pursue any and all who disagree. Personally I can’t remember in my lifetime a movement so obviously double-faced in its rhetoric and campaigning. For years, same sex marriage...
by Richard Nelson | Aug 22, 2014 | Blog
There’s a surreal quality about the way same sex marriage advocates so ruthlessly pursue any and all who disagree. Personally I can’t remember in my lifetime a movement so obviously double-faced in its rhetoric and campaigning. For years, same sex marriage...
by Richard Nelson | Aug 19, 2014 | Blog
Earlier this month a judge made a decision on Tennessee’s constitutional definition of marriage as between a man and a woman. The unusual thing about this particular judge was that he actually upheld the state’s right to define marriage thus. I say...
by Richard Nelson | Aug 14, 2014 | Blog
Richard Nelson, director of the Commonwealth Policy Center, writes in an editorial for the Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer that the city should ask itself whether an LGBT non-discrimination law is necessary. From his piece: We were once told that somebody's private...
by Richard Nelson | Aug 12, 2014 | Blog
Mark Regnerus has presented new data about the beliefs of Christians who support same sex marriage. For the study, Regnerus gathered responses from four groups: Christians who opposed SSM, Christians who supported SSM, Christians identifying as LGBT (lesbian, gay,...
by Richard Nelson | Aug 8, 2014 | Blog
It was recently reported that the Owensboro City Commission will hear the first reading of an ordinance to include sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) as protected behavior into its nondiscrimination code on August 19. Specifically, the move will elevate...
by Richard Nelson | Aug 7, 2014 | Blog
David Frum has a superb piece today in The Atlantic about the effect that casinos have on cities and local economies. The short version: It’s not pretty. Frum begins by explaining a curious trend. The post-recession economy has lent to gaming floors fewer and...
by Richard Nelson | Aug 5, 2014 | Blog
"Always winter, never Christmas." That's how the characters in C.S. Lewis's classic fairy tale The Chronicles of Narnia described the frozen world they lived in. I'd like to adapt this, edit it somewhat and apply it to the McConnell-Grimes race:...
by Richard Nelson | Jul 31, 2014 | Blog
New York Times reporter Josh Barro put himself in the news last week by tweeting, “Anti-LGBT attitudes are terrible for people in all sorts of communities. They linger and oppress, and we need to stamp them out, ruthlessly.” His violent rhetoric was the...
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...
