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- SUPREME URT REJECTS APPEAL OM CLERK WHO REFED TO REGISTER GAY MARRIAGE
- KIM DAVIS VLATED GAY UPL’ RIGHTS NYG MARRIAGE LICENS, JUDGE L
SUPREME URT REJECTS APPEAL OM CLERK WHO REFED TO REGISTER GAY MARRIAGE
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.
" 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. “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.
She was sued by gay and straight upl and spent five days jail over her refal.