Hillary Clinton On Jailed KY Clerk: ‘Officials Should Be Held To Their Duty’

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015. (Jim Lee/Sioux City Journal via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton joined her 2016 rivals in weighing in on the decision by a federal judge to hold a Kentucky clerk in contempt of court for not issuing gay marriage licenses.

Kim Davis, a clerk in Rowan County, has stopped issuing marriage licenses to all couples after the Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage.

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  1. Hillary: “She should have issued marriage certificates from a server in her basement.”

  2. You go, girl!

  3. Correct. I assume Sanders will also be agreeing that Davis must follow the law and respect the courts and perform her duty.

  4. Heh… She said doodie…

  5. This entire thing is silly. The GOP wants to use Davis as an example of the evil Federal Government trying to tell you want to do. When what the democrats should simply do is make it a case of DAVIS trying to tell her deputy clerks what to do.

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