A.G. Gancarski
FloridaPolitics.com has received a list of the panelists for Tuesday night’s “community conversation” on the potential expansion of the Jacksonville Human Rights Ordinance. They are:
- Cheryl Grymes, Duval County School Board
- Dr. Jeff Goldhagen, University of Florida
- Roger Gannam, Liberty Counsel
- Cindy Watson, JASMYN
- Garry Bevel, Jacksonville System of Care Initiative
- Joey Vaughn, Vaughn Law
Of the names on that panel, the most noteworthy is that of Gannam.
Gannam was the lawyer for Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who went to jail rather than perform same-sex marriages.
After the judge sent Davis to jail, Gannam said, “Today, for the first time in American history, an American citizen has been incarcerated for having the belief and conscience that marriage is a union of one man and one woman.”
Gannam once lived in Jacksonville, but has lived in the Orlando area for more than a year.
Meanwhile, the Liberty Counsel has been called out as a “legal organization advocating for anti-LGBT discrimination under the guise of religious liberty” by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The Liberty Counsel, of course, is no stranger to #jaxpol. In 2000, it sounded the alarm against the Harry Potter book series being commemorated in Jacksonville’s library system, via certificates recognizing having read the book.
“Witchcraft is a religion,” the Liberty Counsel’s founder said, “and the certificate of witchcraft endorsed a particular religion in violation of the First Amendment establishment clause.”
One comment
BONNIE m
November 17, 2015 at 3:58 pm
who went to jail rather than perform same-sex marriages.
Nobody asked her to perform any marriage. She went to jail for disobeying a court order!
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