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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So her right to obstruct is superior to the rights of gay couples to marriage, which the Supreme Court has declared to be constitutional.
Limits on religious freedom are long-standing. There is no constitutional bar to requiring Christian Scientists and others who deny modern medicine from having their children vaccinated against smallpox, for instance. (And the fact that smallpox vaccinations are no longer required will come back to haunt us.)
It is absolute insanity. These people haved scream about religious freedom like it trumps all. I am so sick to death of them.
She should also be granted the right and privilege to not be paid while she is willfully ignoring court orders to do her damn job.
She needs to spend time in jail for contempt of court. This is a matter of settled law. She is clearly, CLEARLY in contempt of the very court she is supposed to be the clerk of.
This is madness.
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