The legal fight over the former unty clerk's cisn to refe two gay upl marriage licens 2015 ntu. A jury will ci whether she is rponsible for their legal fe.
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- KENTUCKY CLERK WHO REFED GAY MARRIAGE LICENS N BE SUED
- SUPREME URT REJECTS APPEAL OM CLERK WHO REFED TO REGISTER GAY MARRIAGE
- KENTUCKY CLERK KIM DAVIS, WHO REFED TO ISSUE MARRIAGE LICENS TO GAYS, SEEKS TO END CASE
KENTUCKY CLERK WHO REFED GAY MARRIAGE LICENS N BE SUED
The Kentucky clerk who was jailed for refg to issue marriage licens to gay upl is seekg to close the book on the ntent se. * clerk refused gay marriage licenses *
" Davis "may have been one of the first victims" of the cisn, "but she will not be the last, " wrote Clarence Thomas for himself and Samuel the marriage lg, gay upl sued Davis for refg to issue them marriage licens, and she was briefly jailed for ntempt when she ntued to refe after a urt orred her to grant them. "But lawyers for the gay upl said the issue was much more narrow — whether ernment officials have immuny when they act a way that they know vlat the law.
SUPREME URT REJECTS APPEAL OM CLERK WHO REFED TO REGISTER GAY MARRIAGE
“It is appallg that five years after the historic [gay marriage lg], two jtic still nsir same-sex upl ls worthy of marriage than other upl, " said Jam Esseks, director of the group’s LGBT and HIV Project. LGBTQ mpaigners and legal experts have told of their fears and outrage on Monday after two US supreme urt jtic issued an “appallg” attack on the 2015 landmark cisn enablg same-sex upl to me as the urt cled to hear an appeal the se of former Kentucky clerk Kim Davis, who was jailed 2015 after refg to issue marriage licens to same-sex upl, after gay marriage beme legal.
”Former Democratic printial ndidate Pete Buttigieg, who was the first openly gay printial ndidate, and is married to hband Chasten Buttigieg, also rpond to the jtic, tweetg: “So much for precent and judicial rtrat. The Kentucky clerk who was jailed for refg to issue marriage licens to gay upl is seekg to close the book on a ntent se that ma her a pariah to progrsiv and a hero to some relig County Clerk Kim Davis has asked the 6th U.
KENTUCKY CLERK KIM DAVIS, WHO REFED TO ISSUE MARRIAGE LICENS TO GAYS, SEEKS TO END CASE
Easley / APThe new law provis “the very relig acmodatn Davis sought om the begng of this ligatn, ” Davis' lawyers claimed the urt ACLU, which was party to the su agast Davis filed by four gay upl who were nied marriage licens, offered no objectns. ”“On the eve of the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s lg, we’re pleased that same-sex upl n fully realize legal regnn of their love, cludg Rowan County, Kentucky, ” add Louisville lawyer Daniel Canon, who reprented one of the beme the darlg of the relig right last summer when she refed to issue marriage licens after the Supreme Court legalized gay Apostolic Christian who has been married four tim — twice to the same man — Davis argued that her fah f marriage as the unn of a man and a woman.
She said that by signg a marriage license for a gay uple she was vlatg a te of her relign.