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• 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
• CLERK VLATED RIGHTS OF GAY UPL WHEN SHE REFED TO ISSUE MARRIAGE LICENS
• FORMER KENTUCKY UNTY CLERK KIM DAVIS VLATED GAY UPL' RIGHTS BY REFG TO MARRY THEM, FERAL JUDGE L
• KIM DAVIS VLATED GAY UPL’ RIGHTS NYG MARRIAGE LICENS, JUDGE L
• COURT REJECTS KENTUCKY'S ATTEMPT TO SHIRK LEGAL FE KIM DAVIS GAY MARRIAGE SE
• THE FIANT KIM DAVIS, THE KY. CLERK WHO REF TO ISSUE GAY MARRIAGE LICENS
• WHAT'S NEXT FOR THE KENTUCKY CLERK WHO WON'T ISSUE GAY MARRIAGE LICENS?

SUPREME URT REJECTS APPEAL OM CLERK WHO REFED TO REGISTER 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 KIM DAVIS, WHO REFED TO ISSUE MARRIAGE LICENS TO GAYS, SEEKS TO END CASE

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.

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CLERK VLATED RIGHTS OF GAY UPL WHEN SHE REFED TO ISSUE MARRIAGE LICENS

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.

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.

FORMER KENTUCKY UNTY CLERK KIM DAVIS VLATED GAY UPL' RIGHTS BY REFG TO MARRY THEM, FERAL JUDGE L

— 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. 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. Kim Davis, the former Kentucky clerk who gaed notoriety for nyg marriage licens to two gay upl 2015, has been found guilty of vlatg their Constutnal rights. While servg as the clerk of Rowan County, Davis repeatedly turned away two gay upl: David Ermold and David Moore, and Jam Yat and Will Smh.

She was sued by gay and straight upl, and spent five days jail over her refal.

KIM DAVIS VLATED GAY UPL’ RIGHTS NYG MARRIAGE LICENS, JUDGE L

A former Kentucky unty clerk vlated two gay upl' nstutnal rights when she refed to marry them, a judge led. Kim Davis refed to issue marriage licens to two gay upl 2015, sayg she was "upholdg the word of God. A feral judge on Friday led that former Kentucky unty clerk Kim Davis vlated two gay upl' nstutnal rights when she refed to marry them.

Sovereign immuny protected her om beg sued when she was the Rowan County fightg the issue, Davis claimed that the Supreme Court lg did not apply to her bee she stopped issug marriage licens for everyone, not jt gay upl. She was sued by gay and straight upl and spent five days jail over her refal.

6th Circu Court of Appeals Ccnati upheld the district judge's lg that the state of Kentucky mt pay the $224, 000 attorney fe and sts curred by the same-sex Davis:Governor who praised clerk gay marriage prott wants her to pay state's legal feThe ernor's outsi unsel, Palmer G. Supreme Court's 2015 lg allowg gay a separate opn that volv the se of two other upl, the judg agreed Friday that Davis has sovereign immuny as a public official but not qualified immuny as an noted the send se is still an "early stage" and that a district urt has yet not award any clared she was actg "unr God's thory" when refg to issue the marriage licens 2015 to same-sex upl the Eastern Kentucky unty, a stance that garnered ternatnal Davis:Kentucky official who nied same-sex marriage licens, los re-electnDavis spent five days jail for refg to issue the licens and was eed only when a judge orred her puti to issue the licens whout her the General Assembly passed a law droppg a requirement that marriage licens bear the signatur of clerks, Davis said she no longer objected to issug the same-sex was feated by a Democratic challenger, Elwood Cdill, her bid for re-electn November Amerin Civil Liberti Unn, which reprented the upl who were nied licens by Davis, celebrated the appellate urt's lg Friday.

COURT REJECTS KENTUCKY'S ATTEMPT TO SHIRK LEGAL FE KIM DAVIS GAY MARRIAGE SE

" 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.

Revelatns of Davis’s own maral history (four marriag to three different men) have further fueled cricism of the small-town June, when the Supreme Court led that gay upl have a nstutnal right to wed, Davis has asked to be exced om issug marriage licens to anyone on the grounds that licensg a same-sex marriage would vlate her relig heated scene Kentucky after clerk ref to issue same-sex marriage licensRowan County Clerk Kim Davis is booked and jailed after repeatedly refg to issue marriage licens to same-sex dog so, the longtime public servant has evoked the anger of upl who say ’s their right to be married their home unty by the clerk whose salary om their tax dollars. ”An Apostolic Christian, Davis wrote  her statement that her refal to license a gay marriage is “a Heaven or Hell cisn. ”How people outsi the urt reacted to the gay marriage lgA sea of cheerg, rabow flag-wavg people filled the siwalk ont of the Supreme Court to celebrate the cisn.

THE FIANT KIM DAVIS, THE KY. CLERK WHO REF TO ISSUE GAY MARRIAGE LICENS

Davis, who has refed to issue licens to straight or gay upl sce the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage June, was jailed last week for failg to rry out her official duti as Rowan County clerk.

Meanwhile, Davis has bee a symbol for many nservativ who oppose gay marriage. Gay uple applyg for marriage license speaks to CNN.

WHAT'S NEXT FOR THE KENTUCKY CLERK WHO WON'T ISSUE GAY MARRIAGE LICENS?

When Davis returned to work last Monday, she reerated her opposn to gay marriage but said she wouldn’t prevent her puti om issug licens to such upl – as long as those documents didn’t rry her name or tle. Supreme Court lg that legalized gay marriage across the natn.

In another velopment, ACLU lawyers for the gay uple who sued Davis filed a brief urgg the judge to allow the lawsu to take class-actn stat. Bunng orred Davis to jail on Thursday after fdg her ntempt of urt for refg to issue marriage licens to gay upl Rowan County after June’s U. “This se was brought to ensure that all rints of Rowan County, gay and straight, uld obta marriage licens.