In Friday's Lexington Fayette Urban County Human Rights Comm'n v.
(The GLSO wanted T-shirts to bear the words 'Lexington Pride Festival 2012,' the number '5' and a series of rainbow-colored circles around the '5.') The Lexington Fayette Urban County Human Rights Commission ruled that this violated the Lexington County law banning sexual orientation discrimination in places of public accommodation.
Blaine Adamson, the co-owner and manager of a printing business in Kentucky, has religious objections to printing various types of messages, such as those that promote 'adult entertainment products and establishments,' messages containing demeaning terms such as 'bitches' and depictions of Jesus that he views as disrespectful (examples included 'Jesus dressed as a pirate or selling fried chicken').īecause of this Adamson refused to print, for the local Gay and Lesbian Services Organization, T-shirts that promoted the fifth annual Lexington Gay Pride Festival.
