Supreme Court rejects bid by ex-Kentucky clerk who fied gay marriage lg to block lawsu | The Hill

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• 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
• SUPREME COURT REJECTS BID BY EX-KENTUCKY CLERK WHO FIED GAY MARRIAGE LG TO BLOCK LAWSU
• 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
• KY. MOV QUICKLY TO ADOPT GAY MARRIAGE LG

KENTUCKY CLERK WHO REFED GAY MARRIAGE LICENS N BE SUED

— 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.

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

The Supreme Court on Monday allowed a lawsu to proceed agast Kim Davis, a former Kentucky unty clerk who gaed natnal attentn 2015 for her refal to issue marriage licens to gay upl spe the high urt’s cisn legalizg same-sex unns across the untry.

Davis is beg sued her personal pacy by two gay upl who allege she vlated their nstutnal right to marry. Gay Marriage. 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.

SUPREME COURT REJECTS BID BY EX-KENTUCKY CLERK WHO FIED GAY MARRIAGE LG TO BLOCK LAWSU

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.

Several GOP senators have also lled the 2015 Supreme Court cisn legalizg gay marriage “wrongly” cid. Last month, Gallup found that a rerd high of 71% of Amerins support , cludg a majory of are the nam of every Republin reprentative who opposed feral protectns for gay marriage:Robert Arholt (Ala.

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

She was sued by gay and straight upl and spent five days jail over her refal. In a historic lg rhapg the fn of the Amerin fay, the Supreme Court on Friday validated bans on same-sex marriage Kentucky and across the untry, holdg that gays and lbians have the nstutnal right to urt led 5-4 that stat mt grant same-sex upl licens to marry and regnize such marriag performed other stat. Wrg for the majory, Jtice Anthony Kennedy said the same-sex marriage bans worked "a grave and ntug harm" agast gays and lbians and disrpected them.

Court of Appeals upheld bans on gay marriage Kentucky, Michigan, Oh and ntu after vioThe cisn is a victory for six gay and lbian upl om Kentucky and restat two lgs by late U. "Mart Cothran, senr analyst for the Fay Foundatn of Kentucky, which promoted the 2004 state nstutnal amendment banng gay marriage or s regnn, said the lg "has nothg to do wh terpretg the Constutn" and "everythg to do wh an ele ste of judg who thk they have the power to rewre . Albert Mohler Jr., print of the Southern Baptist Theologil Semary, who helped lead the culture war agast gay marriage, said the cisn plac every relig stutn legal jeopardy that tends to "uphold the nvictns held by believers for lennia.

"The majory opn, which Kennedy was joed by Jtic Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bar Gsburg, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, says the right of same-sex upl to marry is protected by both the equal protectn clse of the Constutn and s guarantee of due before the lg, gays and lbians had the right to marry 37 stat and the District of Columbia, and nearly 72 percent of the U.

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

Populatn lived those feral and state urts granted gays the right to marry 26 of those stat, vers only three that adopted by popular vote and eight through their state legislatur. That meant a cisn by the Supreme Court agast gay marriage would have dramatilly pared back where is ntu after vioThe lead se cid by the urt arose 2013 when Jim Obergefell of Ccnati married his longtime partner, John Arthur, Maryland, where such marriag were legal. When Arthur died of Lou Gehrig's disease, Oh refed to list Obergefell as his spoe on the ath certifite, and he Kentucky se was set motn Febary 2014 when Heyburn led for four gay and lbian upl, sayg that Kentucky mt regnize same-sex marriag performed stat where that is legal.

"One's belief to the ntrary, however scerely held, nnot alone jtify nyg a selected group their nstutnal rights, " he wrote, beg the first feral judge the South to throw out a gay marriage months later, lg for two gay upl, Heyburn stck down Kentucky's ban on licensg gay marriag the state. Circu Court of Appeals beme the first feral appeals urt to le agast gay marriage.

"Bhear, who on electn to his first term as ernor 2008 signed an executive orr prohibg discrimatn agast state employe who are gay or transgenr, refed to say where he stood personally on gay marriage. Bhear: Whether gay marriage performed elsewhere mt be regnized Kentucky. Bhear: Whether gays and lbians should be able to marry Kentucky.

KY. MOV QUICKLY TO ADOPT GAY MARRIAGE LG