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Judi Lynn

(160,218 posts)
Tue May 2, 2017, 05:12 PM May 2017

Court: Gay couple's suit against Kentucky clerk can proceed

Source: Associated Press


Adam Beam, Associated Press Updated 2:59 pm, Tuesday, May 2, 2017


FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A federal appeals court says a gay couple's lawsuit seeking damages from a Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue them a marriage license can proceed. The ruling revives an issue that pulled the state into the center of a national debate over same-sex marriages following a historic Supreme Court ruling.

David Ermold and David Moore tried to get a marriage license in Rowan County, Kentucky, in June 2015 after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled same-sex marriage bans were unconstitutional. But Kim Davis, the county clerk, refused to issue them a license because she said it violated her religious beliefs.

Ermold and Moore sued, along with several other couples. Davis lost, and spent five days in jail for refusing to follow a court order. The dispute thrust the embattled clerk into the national limelight and prompted same-sex marriage opponents across the country to rally behind her. A Republican congressman from Ohio gave her a ticket to former President Barack Obama's State of the Union address. And she met with Pope Francis in Washington, although that encounter quickly sent the Vatican scrambling to distance itself from the controversy.

. . .

Liberty Counsel, a Florida-based law firm specializing in religious-liberty issues, has represented Davis throughout the case. The firm also represents former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, who ordered state probate judges to continue to enforce that state's ban on same-sex marriage despite the U.S. Supreme Court ruling. Moore was removed from his post because of his order. He is now running for U.S. Senate.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Court-Gay-couple-s-suit-against-Kentucky-clerk-11115288.php

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Court: Gay couple's suit against Kentucky clerk can proceed (Original Post) Judi Lynn May 2017 OP
Good! Nwgirl503 May 2017 #1
Good! irisblue May 2017 #2
And yet..... she's still there. CurtEastPoint May 2017 #3
KD is a thief... She accepted pay for a job she refused to do. keithbvadu2 May 2017 #4
From Davis' own hometown... countryjake May 2017 #5
Good... Grassy Knoll May 2017 #6

Nwgirl503

(406 posts)
1. Good!
Tue May 2, 2017, 05:16 PM
May 2017

More of these shits need to pay criminally and civilly. Denying people their rights isn't free.

And Moore needs to be kept out of the Senate. We already have enough RW fundies. Fuck them.

irisblue

(32,829 posts)
2. Good!
Tue May 2, 2017, 05:17 PM
May 2017

And hell yes the Democratic party abandoned her (from the article) the state and or the national party should have pubically expelled her.

keithbvadu2

(36,369 posts)
4. KD is a thief... She accepted pay for a job she refused to do.
Tue May 2, 2017, 07:16 PM
May 2017

KD is a thief... She accepted pay for a job she refused to do.

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