Judge clears Kentucky clerk, OKs marriage licenses with her name removed

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

World | Wed Feb 10, 2016 10:28am EST

Judge clears Kentucky clerk, OKs marriage licenses with her name removed

LOUISVILLE, KY. | BY STEVE BITTENBENDER

The federal judge who threw Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis into jail last year for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples said she had not interfered with the process since her release and that licenses with her name removed should still be valid.

U.S. District Court Judge David Bunning ruled late on Tuesday that Rowan County's Davis, who spent five days in jail last September for her stand on marriage licenses for gay couples, had not interfered with her deputies' issuing the licenses.

When she returned to work, Davis removed her name, title and personal authorization from the licenses.

"There was every reason to believe" the forms she altered would be deemed valid by state officials, Bunning said, adding that the court would continue to monitor Davis and her office.

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[MagickMuffin]

1. Good… K&R

[Hortensis]

2. Good little wrapup. Nice exercise of the

right of all citizens to be free from imposition of religion.

[longship]

3. I believe that that's Sen. Jim Bunning's son.

I first knew Jim Bunning as a Detroit Tigers pitcher and pitched a no hitter in 1958. Then he was traded away and pitched a perfect game for Philadelphia in 1967. He was a good pitcher, not so much as a Senator IMHO.