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Kim Davis, Antigay Kentucky Clerk, Must Pay $100K for Refusing Same Sex Marriage License

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Kim Davis, Kentucky County Clerk who denied gay couple marriage license, must pay them $100,000

 

Cybele Mayes-Osterman — USA TODAY—Sept. 14, 2023
Kim Davis, former Kentucky county clerk

 

A former Kentucky county clerk must pay $100,000 to a gay couple she denied a marriage license, a federal jury decided on Thursday.

Kim Davis, formerly the Rowan County clerk, attracted international attention when she refused to issue the license after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in 2015, landing her in jail on a contempt of court charge for five days.
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Aiming for the Roots: Anti-Racism and A Failed Attack on Racist Culture

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It was in the second session of our anti-racism class, if I remember right, that the teacher drew a diagram on the big flip chart. I’m going to call it TUD, for The Unforgettable Diagram. I’ve forgotten a lot about the class, but not that. Definitely not that.

The class met in the library at Pendle Hill, the Quaker study/retreat center near Philadelphia. The teacher came all the way from Chapel Hill, North Carolina’s iconic college town. Continue reading Aiming for the Roots: Anti-Racism and A Failed Attack on Racist Culture →

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“Inner Light”? Or Just an ”Anomaly”??

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[Have you had “anomalous experiences” like this skeptic did? I have; but those are other stories. Here’s one that was recounted in Scientific American, where skepticism is (appropriately) an article of faith. “Anomalous experiences” (aka synchronicity, serendipity, coincidence, fate, luck, destiny, Providence, etc.) are by definition non-scientific, as they can’t be replicated like all successful experiments. But unique events are not ipso facto meaningless, as this charming account shows.]

Anomalous Events That Can Shake One’s Skepticism to the Core

Michael Shermer & Jennifer Graf, on their anomalous day

I just witnessed an event so mysterious that it shook my skepticism
By Michael Shermer on October 1, 2014

Often I am asked if I have ever encountered something that I could not explain. Continue reading “Inner Light”? Or Just an ”Anomaly”?? →