Judge Orders Kentucky Clerk to Issue Gay Marriage Licenses

[TexasTowelie]

Source: AP

A federal judge ordered a county clerk in Kentucky to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, saying the clerk must follow the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.

Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis was one of a handful of local elected officials across the country that stopped issuing marriage licenses after the court's ruling in June. She said issuing a marriage license to a gay couple would violate her Christian beliefs and argued the U.S. Constitution protected her religious freedoms.

Two gay couples and two straight couples in Rowan County sued her.

U.S. District Judge David Bunning said the couples should not be forced to travel to another county to get marriage licenses.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/judge-orders-kentucky-clerk-issue-gay-marriage-licenses-33045729

[dbackjon]

1. Only logcal ruling

[dbackjon]

2. And note - Judge is Dubya appointee, and son of former GOP Senator Jim Bunning

[Thor_MN]

3. Does Kim feel that the requirements for any official document includes

"if Kim Davis approves."

Do your job, Kim Davis, or quit and make way for someone who will.

If they terminate her, it better be for cause, she is not entitled to unemployment benefits, IMO.

[d_r]

4. Good

There was a video of a couple being refused a license by her posted on du a few weeks ago.

[irisblue]

5. good.

[RKP5637]

6. If she can't handle her job she should quit or be fired. Period. n/t

[riversedge]

7. maybe in her

self-righteousness she will trip over her big head.

[valerief]

8. If she wants to live in a theocracy, she should move to Saudi Arabia or Iran. nt

[cleanhippie]

9. Misleading headline. Jusdge orders clerk to issue marriage licenses to everyone

is how it should read, not "gay marriage licences."

There's no such thing as "gay marriage", just marriage between two people, regardless of gender.

[Fritz Walter]

10. She still refuses? Arrest her fat ass for contempt of court.

Send in state troopers or federal marshals, if need be.

She can practice her faith in jail, while the governor appoints an interim county court clerk who will comply with the law.

[Botany]

11. Time for the Governor to drop the hammer on Ms. Davis she can either do her job ....

..... or quit and if not she needs fired.

"Believe in a deity does not give you the right to act as a deity and tell the
rest of us on how to live and conduct our lives." Botany