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

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" 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. 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.

KENTUCKY CLERK KIM DAVIS, WHO REFED TO ISSUE MARRIAGE LICENS TO GAYS, SEEKS TO END CASE

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 refuses to issue gay marriage license *

”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.

KENTUCKY CLERK WHO REFED GAY MARRIAGE LICENS N BE SUED

When she was elected clerk a ral Kentucky unty, Davis vowed to "follow the statut of this office to the letter." But now she fac misnduct charg and the scty of the untry for her stance on gay marriage. * clerk refuses to issue gay marriage license *

She said that by signg a marriage license for a gay uple she was vlatg a te of her relign.

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6, 2018See the rults for the Hoe of Reprentativ, the Senate and ernors’ rac, and read our Davis, the Kentucky unty clerk who fied the Supreme Court and was jailed 2015 for her refal to issue marriage licens to same-sex upl, lost her re-electn bid on Davis, who emerged as a hero of the relig right and ran for re-electn as a Republin, lost by fewer than 700 vot among nearly 7, 800 Democratic opponent, Elwood Cdill Jr., bted her the race for clerk of Rowan County, a ral patch of eastern Kentucky that voted for Print Tmp 2016 but where Democrats typilly w lol race had once been billed as one of the biggt polil showdowns Kentucky bee David Ermold, a gay man whose requt for a marriage license Ms.

KENTUCKY CLERK WHO REFED GAY MARRIAGE LICENS LOS ELECTN

But he tweeted on Tuday that he had vote was a wre-: “Agast Homophobia.

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 licensThis Thursday, Aug.

Clerk went to jail Thursday for refg to issue marriage licens to gay upl, but five of her puti agreed to ply wh the law, endg a two-month standoff.

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

”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 lgGay rights supporters celebrate after the U.

Wh the lg, gay marriage will bee legal all 50 stat. (AP)A Kentucky unty clerk's office turned down a gay uple’s requt to get a marriage license based on the clerk's eply held Christian beliefs, spe a feral judge’s orr to issue the office of Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis is one of a handful across the untry to ce relig beliefs nyg gay marriage licens after the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage June.

They held hands as they walked to the clerk's office, and gay rights activists, who have led the street wh rabow signs and flags every day for more than a month, shouted "Good luck! "This is how gay people are treated this untry.

KENTUCKY CLERK'S OFFICE REF TO ISSUE GAY MARRIAGE LICENSE SPE URT ORR

Cdill told CBS Lexgton, Kentucky affiliate WKYT-TV Tuday night that Davis had lled him and nced the race for Rowan County was the first time Davis faced re-electn sce 2015, when she fied the Supreme Court lg legalizg gay marriage and refed to issue Ermold and Moore marriage licens, sayg vlated her relig beliefs.

KIM DAVIS, CLERK WHO REFED TO ISSUE GAY MARRIAGE LICENS, VOTED OUT OF OFFICE

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