Ky. clerk's office will issue marriage licenses Friday — without the clerk [View all]
ASHLAND, Ky. — Five of six deputies in the office of a Kentucky county clerk taken into custody Thursday for her refusal to issue marriage licenses after the Supreme Court allowed gays to wed say they will process the paperwork starting Friday.
But Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, whom U.S. District Court Judge David Bunning found in contempt of court, said through her lawyers that she will not authorize any of her employees to issue licenses in her absence. The judge placed her in the custody of U.S. marshals and had her taken to Carter County jail.
"My conscience will not allow it," Davis said earlier to Bunning. "God's moral law convicts me and conflicts with my duties."
Among her deputies, the holdout was Davis' son, Nathan Davis. Yet the other deputy clerks had reservations as they individually answered Bunning's questions, some based on religion, like Kim Davis, and others who wondered about their legal authority to sign forms without an elected official's consent.
This religious bigot thinks she can continue to run this office from jail.
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