Same-Sex Couples Still Not Allowed To Wed In More Than 20 Counties

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In Alabama, Texas, Kentucky and Nebraska, a handful of judges and county clerks are bucking the Supreme Court ruling that made same-sex marriage legal throughout the U.S. just two weeks ago. In at least 20 counties in these states, same-sex couples seeking marriage licenses have been turned away at the courthouse.

April Miller and Karen Ann Roberts were the first to be turned down in Rowan County, Kentucky, where they have lived for the past nine years. At 8:30 a.m. on June 30, five days after Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote that the U.S. Constitution grants same-sex couples “equal dignity in the eyes of the law,” Miller and Roberts were told by a clerk that Rowan County was no longer issuing marriage licenses -- to anyone.

The governor and attorney general of Kentucky had each already released statements ordering clerks to fall in line with the Supreme Court ruling. But Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis refused to comply. Although she has stopped issuing licenses to straight couples as well as gay ones, it’s clear that her decision was motivated by the recent ruling. "My conscience won't allow me” to issue same-sex marriage licenses, Davis said Tuesday, according to ABC News. "It goes against everything I hold dear, everything sacred in my life." (Davis did not respond to The Huffington Post's requests for an interview; you can watch a video of her turning down another gay couple here.)

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