Clerk Kim Davis Will Spend Night In Jail For Refusing To Issue Licenses

Rowan County Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis shows emotion as she is cheered by a gathering of supporters during a rally on the steps of the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort Ky., Saturday, Aug. 22, 2015. Davis spoke at t... Rowan County Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis shows emotion as she is cheered by a gathering of supporters during a rally on the steps of the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort Ky., Saturday, Aug. 22, 2015. Davis spoke at the rally organized by The Family Foundation of Kentucky. The crowd of a few thousand included churchgoers from around the state. Davis has been sued by The American Civil Liberties Union for denying marriage licenses to gay couples. She says her Christian faith prohibits her from signing licenses for same-sex couples. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley) MORE LESS
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Kentucky clerk Kim Davis will spend the night in jail after refusing to grant her deputy clerks authority to grant marriage licenses to gay couples, WKOW reported Thursday.

While the Rowan County clerk’s office is set to begin issuing marriage licenses at 8 a.m. on Friday, the licenses are on shaky legal ground without her signature, the station reported.

Every deputy county clerks but one – Davis’ son – said they would issue licenses to same-sex couples in her absence.

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  1. I’m not sure orange is her color. Too bad.

  2. Why isn’t her son in jail with her for stating he will not comply either?

  3. So now she has what she REALLY wanted all along, to be a MARTYR just like the White, 6’ 2", Red-Headed, Republican. Rambo-Jesus that she (professes) to worship.
    It was never about LAW or Right/Wrong. It was about MARTYRDOM.
    I guarantee she enjoys struggling and bleeding up there on her cross.

  4. Oh, she’s in the county jail? Carter County, at that. Enjoy listening to the meth addicts and heroin addicts scream their faces off all night. She’s in for a rough night.

  5. What a vicious, self-righteous, bigoted bitch … and her little dog too! (Err, I mean her son. Oops.)

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