Ky. Clerk Won't Have To Issue Gay Marriage Licenses While Case Goes To Appeals Court

[DonViejo]

Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS

MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky county clerk who objects to same-sex marriage will not have to issue marriage licenses while she takes her case to a federal appeals court.

Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis is being sued by two gay couples. U.S. District Judge David Bunning ordered Davis last week to issue the licenses despite her objections.

On Monday, he granted her request to stay his decision while she pursues her case before the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Davis has refused to grant marriage licenses to anyone in Rowan County since the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.

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Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/kim-davis-rowan-county-gay-marriage-stay

[geek tragedy]

1. She should pay all attorney's fees for the prevailing plaintiffs, and thus be forced

into personal bankruptcy as well as losing her job.

Bottom feeding bigot can then go on the wingnut welfare circuit.

[ShrimpPoboy]

4. A prevailing plaintiff

in a civil rights case does indeed get attorney fees paid. And the damage award is often levied personally on the defendant.

Considering what a slam dunk the case is, you will likely see your wish granted.

[bluestateguy]

7. And I know how that will play out

After she loses they'll be a Gofundme campaign, and crybaby fundraising letters, co-signed by Mike Huckabee.

Her benefactors will take of her.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

30. She'll be a brazillionaire!

[EEO]

5. Agreed.

She should have either done her job or quit out of contempt for the supremacy of law.

[LynneSin]

2. Give the woman a break, she knows alot about the sanctity of marriage

She has been married 4 times

[tomm2thumbs]

3. bwahahahhahaha!!!!

DUzy!

[bluestateguy]

6. She will drag this out for months and months

More lawyers! More hearings! More pre-trial motions! More appeals!

if I lived in that county I would refuse to pay my property taxes until there is compliance.

[kairos12]

14. "Religious freedom" versus the rights of LGBT is headed to SCOTUS. Count on it.

[Geronimoe]

8. Just checking

Will she issue marriage license to those who have coveted thy neighbor or committed adultery or out of marriage sexual acts?

[eggplant]

9. It would seem she isn't issuing licenses to anyone. n/t

[jtuck004]

18. She has coveted at least 4 new people during her 4 marriages, so it doesn't sound like she

has any kind of objection to that.

[jtuck004]

19. Damn. It's a family affair...

...
Chat outside the courthouse among the protesters says that Ms. Davis, the County Clerk, is on her fourth marriage, though nobody thinks that diminishes her faith. Her mother held the post for some years; her son serves as her assistant. That’s not mean, angry conversation. It’s a headshake from people who know her and are sorry it has come to this. (The same chat says at least one employee is gay, and so the county may be looking at a hostile work environment.)

A 9 July 2015 report from Lexington station WKYT on David Moore’s video noted the rumor that Kim Davis had herself been married four times and stated that her marriage certificate(s) confirmed that fact:
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Read more at http://m.snopes.com/kim-davis-married-four-times/#ipQlMcmLk4DZ7tUk.99

I would prefer they replace her with someone else. Even if she would, I wouldn't want her a part of anything I do.

[Skittles]

10. this is ridiculous

she is unable to perform her duties - she needs to find another job where bigotry is just A-OK

[Botany]

11. Appeals Court will not give any relief to what the SCOTUS has ruled as settled law

My 2 cents.

Just because somemebody believes in a diety that does not give them the right to act
as that diety and tell other people on how to live their lives.

[jtuck004]

17. Just because somemebody believes in a diety that does not give them the right to act as that diety<

This.

[niyad]

24. what's a diety?

[Botany]

25. it is when you misspell deity

[Raster]

27. a small, fun little diet.

[packman]

12. Is Fox looking for a new commentator ?

Because once she looses her job, on to Fox News.

[azureblue]

16. lose

the word is lose, not loose.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

31. Have you ever considered that it may loosen, and then she lost it?

[JeaneRaye]

13. Fire her!

She's not doing her job. Fire her.

[niyad]

23. she is, alas, an elected official.

[azureblue]

15. But she

Gives marriage licenses to people who eat pork and shellfish, and people that (like herself) have committed adultery by multiple marriages. Hasn't she read her Bible?

[LynneSin]

20. They sell those special bibles in Kentucky

you know the ones where they cut out all that crap about love thy neighbor stuff that Jesus talks about.

[rurallib]

21. so - who's paying her legal bills?

Boy I would be pissed if our county clerk refused to do her job and then wanted the citizens to pay her legal bills because she refused to follow the law.
I would be working on a recall petition right now.

[niyad]

22. can we refuse to pay her salary while she is refusing to do her job?

[Picking Dem]

26. Yes. She should be suspended without pay pending appeals action

and further, must put $250,000 in an escrow account to guarantee payment.

[niyad]

32. works for me.

[jmowreader]

28. This seems like a straightforward Establishment Clause case to me

A government official refusing to perform official duties based on her personal religious beliefs both respects an establishment of religion, specifically whatever hard-right cult Kim Davis belongs to, and prohibits the free exercise of any religion that doesn't bar same-sex marriage.

I'm certain the fundamentalist law firm that's representing her will use Hobby Lobby as precedent, but the plaintiff in that case was a private business. Private businesses can have any religious beliefs they want; the Rowan County Clerk's Office is not a private business and is therefore required to be inclusive. I'm fairly sure Mrs. Davis would issue a marriage license to a white man marrying a non-white woman, even though the Bible plainly says not to mix the races. (For those keeping score, this was Maurice Bessenger's excuse when he tried to defend his barbecue joints' "we don't feed n*****s" policy.)

[mahatmakanejeeves]

29. She can't be fired, because

she's an elected official, and therefore:

Clerk to continue to deny marriage licenses to gays

Kentucky county official appealing judge’s order

posted 1 minute ago (CDT)
by / Associated Press

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Davis faces fines and a possible jail sentence for contempt of court if she loses the lawsuit, but she can only be impeached from her $80,000 a year job by the state legislature, and lawmakers won’t reconvene until January.