LGBT anti-discrimination policy

Former Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis is appealing a ruling that says she must pay damages to same-sex couples who were refused marriage licenses. Her lawyers filed a brief Monday with the U.S. Sixth Circuit of Appeals, asking for the $360,000 judgment to be overturned.

Attorney General Daniel Cameron called on Mayor Craig Greenberg to abandon the city’s defense of the Fairness Ordinance, which bans anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination, given a recent Supreme Court decision. Civil rights legal experts say the limits of who can discriminate and why under the decision are far from decided.

Advocates rallied for LGBTQ rights on Wednesday, calling for lawmakers to stop advancing bills to ban trans girls from girls sports.

Advocates hope the decision will set a precedent for marriage equality lawsuits now pending across the country, and help pave the way for same-sex marriage in Japan — the only G-7 nation without it.