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Kentucky Clerk Denies Same-Sex Marriage Licenses, Defying Court
That Clerk is in for it now...
We all remember that Clerk in Kentucky that would not issues same sex marriage licenses, well she is in trouble now.
By ALAN BLINDER and RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑASEPT. 1, 2015
MOREHEAD, Ky. — A county clerk in Kentucky who objects to same-sex marriage on religious grounds denied licenses to gay couples on Tuesday, saying she was acting “under God’s authority,” just hours after the Supreme Court refused to support her position.
In a raucous scene in this little town, two same-sex couples walked into the Rowan County Courthouse, trailed by television cameras and chanting protesters on both sides of the issue, only to be turned away by the county clerk, Kim Davis.
As one couple, David Ermold and David Moore, tried to engage her in an argument, Ms. Davis said several times that her office would not issue any marriage licenses. “Under whose authority?” Mr. Ermold asked.
“Under God’s authority,” she replied.
You have got to read the rest at
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/02/us/same-sex-marriage-kentucky-kim-davis.html?_r=0
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