Federal Judge: MS Clerks Can't Cite Religious Beliefs to Deny SSM Licenses

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Before you make fun of Kim Davis for no reason, note that her issue was that she felt that the state should provide her a religious exemption and allow her office to issue marriage licenses without her name on them. She did not have a problem with other people in her office issuing the licenses as long as her name was not on the paper. She actually opposed a bill proposed by KY Republicans that would have created a separate marriage license form for same-sex couples because she said she did not believe in "separate but equal marriage" and said that all couples should use one, inclusive form. She's not a hateful person - don't turn her into a punching bag.

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Are we already rewriting this?  When U.S. District Court Judge David Bunning held Davis in contempt of court, he said he would save her from jail if she simply allowed her deputies to issue the marriage licenses. She refused.

She was only released when she agreed to let her deputies do their job.

She refused to allow her deputies to issue the licenses because they had her name on them. She asked that the licenses be issued without her name on them. After Matt Bevin's election, they changed the forms to exclude the clerk's name from marriage licenses, and her office is now functioning just like any other clerk's office in KY.