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Contents:

• GAY MARRIAGE REGNIZED IN KENTUCKY
• SUPREME URT REJECTS APPEAL OM CLERK WHO REFED TO REGISTER GAY MARRIAGE
• KENTUCKY CLERK WHO REFED GAY MARRIAGE LICENS N BE SUED
• I WAS PART OF 303 CREATIVE'S CASE. I BACK GAY MARRIAGE—BUT SCOTUS IS RIGHT
• KENTUCKY CLERK FIGHTG GAY MARRIAGE HAS WED FOUR TIM
• KY. ORRED TO REGNIZE OUT-OF-STATE GAY MARRIAG
• KENTUCKY JUDGE TURNS GAY MARRIAGE TI THE SOUTH

GAY MARRIAGE REGNIZED IN KENTUCKY

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Another gay rights bill sponsored by Republins, Senate Bill 137, which would have banned gay nversn therapy, was never heard the Senate Health & Welfare Salaman, a nstutnal law profsor at the Universy of Kentucky College of Law, said that the future of same-sex marriage is likely more solid than some might thk. — Defyg the Supreme Court and sayg she was actg “unr God’s thory, ” a unty clerk Kentucky nied marriage licens to gay upl on Tuday, ls than a day after the urt rejected her requt for a lay.

SUPREME URT REJECTS APPEAL OM CLERK WHO REFED TO REGISTER GAY MARRIAGE

One uple, David Ermold and David Moore, tried to engage the unty clerk, Kim Davis, a bate before the meras, but as she had before, she turned them away, sayg repeatedly that she would not issue licens to any upl, gay or straight.

To me this has never been a gay or lbian issue. Gay Marriage Regnized In Kentucky, For NowKentucky, for the moment, regniz gay marriage. — A Kentucky unty clerk who has bee a symbol of relig opposn to same-sex marriage was jailed Thursday after fyg a feral urt orr to issue licens to gay clerk, Kim Davis of Rowan County, Ky., was orred taed for ntempt of urt and later rejected a proposal to allow her puti to procs same-sex marriage licens that uld have prompted her release.

KENTUCKY CLERK WHO REFED GAY MARRIAGE LICENS N BE SUED

Some advot for gay rights quickly exprsed ncern that Ms. ViotranscripttranscriptProtters Outsi Kentucky CourthoeDemonstrators exprsed support for gay marriage and relig liberty outsi a urthoe Ashland, Ky., on Thursday, where the Rowan County clerk of urts, Kim Davis, was orred to — COURTESY WHAS11 NEWS, EMBARGO LOUISVILLE.

Var of gay marriage supporters and monstrators outsi Kentucky urthoeDemonstrators exprsed support for gay marriage and relig liberty outsi a urthoe Ashland, Ky., on Thursday, where the Rowan County clerk of urts, Kim Davis, was orred to jail. Davis jailed, the agreements by her puty clerks left gay and straight upl poised to receive marriage licens the unty for the first time months.

The rabow flag, a symbol of the gay rights movement, was on display along wh signs that rried msag like “Sodomy is s. Peter Baker and Sheryl Gay Stolberg ntributed reportg om Washgton. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 1 of the New York edn wh the headle: Clerk Choos Jail Over Deal on Gay Unns.

I WAS PART OF 303 CREATIVE'S CASE. I BACK GAY MARRIAGE—BUT SCOTUS IS RIGHT

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. HistoryHomosexual activy Kentucky? Homosexual activy Kentucky is legal.

-- A clerk's office turned away gay upl who sought marriage licens on Thursday, fyg a feral judge's orr that said eply held Christian beliefs don't exce officials om followg the law. County Clerk Kim Davis ced her relig beliefs and cid not to issue marriage licens to any uple, gay or straight.

KENTUCKY CLERK FIGHTG GAY MARRIAGE HAS WED FOUR TIM

"This is how gay people are treated this untry.

They held hands as they walked to the clerk's office, and gay rights activists shouted "Good luck! A history of gay rights Ameri. " 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. 12 that state%27s ban vlated Constutn%27s equal protectn guaranteeHe did not le that Kentucky mt allow gay marriag to be performed the stateHe did not grant the state a 90-day lay to ci whether would appeal the orrLOUISVILLE, Ky.

KY. ORRED TO REGNIZE OUT-OF-STATE GAY MARRIAG

"We are utly optimistic, " said Dan Canon, a lawyer for the four gay and lbian upl who won the se.

He said he has talked to many Kentucky gay upl who are nsirg amendg their tax returns to file jotly. In an terview wh The New York Tim, Holr said officials who have refully studied bans on gay marriage uld refe to fend his 23-page opn earlier this month, Heyburn said Kentucky's ban, which has been place sce 2004, priv gays and lbians of numero legal protectns available to oppose-sex upl and vlat the nstutnal guarantee of equal protectn unr the law.

KENTUCKY JUDGE TURNS GAY MARRIAGE TI THE SOUTH

Almost three-fourths of voters approved Kentucky's nstutnal ban on same-sex marriage 2004, and clud the out-of-state Wednday, a feral judge Texas stck down that state's gay marriage ban but immediately layed the implementatn of his lg pendg appeals om the state. Kentucky's proposed orr only requir Kentucky to regnize the marriag of gay and lbian upl performed other stat or untri. It do not al wh whether the state n be required to issue marriage licens to same-sex upl, an existg ban that two gay upl have asked Heburn to strike Cothran, a senr policy analyst for the Fay Foundatn of Kentucky, cricized the state attorney general's handlg of the se, accg him of "spikg" the state's fense by not makg persuasive arguments to keep the ban place.

Supreme Court led that gay marriage was legal natnwi, Davis stopped issug marriage licens for anyone Rowan County, Governor Steve Bhear orred all urt clerks to license same-sex upl, Davis sued the ernor for relig discrimatn. On Wednday, a feral judge wh ep ti to the Republin Party beme the first the South to le favor of gay marriage, offerg the bt proof yet that the balance the natn’s long and ntent clash over how to fe marriage has been tipped irrevobly favor of gay rights. Bh, validat a key part of Kentucky’s ban on gay marriage, and requir the state to regnize as valid same-sex unns sealed elsewhere.

Heyburn’s lg is the 10th straight cisn favor of gay marriage by a state or a feral judge sce the Supreme Court issued s landmark Wdsor lg by Jtice Anthony M. Kennedy, who wrote there uld be no valid basis for Congrs to prevent stat om regnizg gay marriag. Borrowg heavily om Kennedy’s reasong last year’s cisn, and pla language aimed directly at the many voters Kentucky who still oppose gay marriage, Heyburn found gay marriage laws are illegal for the simplt of reasons.