Kentucky clerk closes office amid backlash over refused marriage licenses

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Kentucky clerk closes office amid backlash over refused marriage licenses

Associated Press in Morehead, Kentucky
Saturday 29 August 2015 19.00 BST

The Kentucky clerk at the centre of a conflict over same-sex marriage closed her office on Saturday, ahead of a rally protesting her refusal to issue marriage licenses.

The protest came a day after Rowan County clerk Kim Davis asked the US supreme court to grant her “asylum for her conscience”.

Davis stopped issuing all marriage licenses after the supreme court’s June ruling in favor of same-sex marriage. Four couples have sued, saying Davis must fulfill her duties as an elected official regardless of her personal belief that gay marriage is sinful.

A few dozen people showed up to protest Davis’s ongoing refusal on Saturday. A note on the door did not explain the closure, but asked those who were inconvenienced to put their names on a list.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/29/kentucky-clerk-same-sex-marriage-licenses-protest

[iemitsu]

1. I hope she is fined the same amount she has raised

on her Go-Fund-Me account.
And forced to serve time behind bars on top of that.
People should not be rewarded for their bigotry.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. She realy does have a go fund me account?

Luckily, one can comment on such an account.

[iemitsu]

4. I don't really know if she has such an account.

I read it somewhere but now can't find where that was. I'm not sure how to verify if a Go Fund Me account exists.
Sorry.
But I sure hope she does not profit from denying others their civil rights.

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. I'm not sure how to verify if a Go Fund Me account exists.

You would go to the Go Fund Me page and put a name into the search box.

then if she shows up, you could make a valid statement of her funding page and even post teh link.

[2naSalit]

3. Sounds like a case of

assuming more authority than is afforded one in that capacity/position.

Needs to be fired and held in contempt of office and violating the oath of office.

[RKP5637]

5. Exactly! She's unfit for office! n/t

[blkqt]

7. I've noticed a trend....

Every time I see these stories of conservatives of denying same sex couples basic human rights on guise of the "muh free speech" get free card, I always find it funny how everyone thinks just because it's free speech that it Shouldn't be regulated. More times than not free speech = hate speech. Racists/homophones have learned this defense mechanism quickly. The only way to combat these people is to take away their last defense.