A county clerk from Kentucky who went to jail rather than issue marriage licenses to gay couples made material changes to the forms upon her return and is not in compliance with a federal court order, lawyers for couples suing her said on Monday. Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis should be ordered to allow the… [Read More]
Kentucky clerk Kim Davis interfered with judge’s order, attorney says, Updated
OWENSBORO, Ky. – The attorney for one of the deputy clerks in Kim Davis’ office says Davis disobeyed a federal judge’s order when she altered marriage license forms for same-sex couples. Deputy Clerk Brian Mason has been issuing marriage licenses in Rowan County over the objections of Davis, the elected county clerk who believes same-sex… [Read More]
Deputy Kentucky clerk questions validity of licenses altered by Kim Davis
A deputy for the Kentucky county clerk who was jailed after refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples questioned on Friday the validity of the licenses he has issued since his boss’ return. In a filing with the federal judge overseeing a lawsuit against Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis for not issuing marriage licenses,… [Read More]
This Major Announcement Finally Gives Kim Davis Some Big Good News- Liberals Will Hate It
County Clerk Kim Davis, whose unabashed defense of her faith and principles landed her in jail, is being honored by the Family Research Council with its “Cost of Discipleship Award” in recognition of her courage. “What the Left is almost certainly afraid of is what is coming to pass: courage is breeding courage,” said Family… [Read More]
Court again denies Kim Davis’ bid to delay marriage licenses
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Embattled Kentucky clerk Kim Davis “has not demonstrated a substantial likelihood of success” in her legal bid to exempt her office from licensing same-sex marriages, a federal appeals court reiterated Tuesday. One day after Davis returned to work following a stint in jail for defying a federal judge, the Sixth Circuit U.S…. [Read More]
Susan Stamper Brown: Lawlessness and the Faith of Kim Davis
Rowan County, Ky. elected official Kim Davis was jailed unjustly. Unjustly, because we live in a society which promotes right as wrong, and wrong as right, and laws are applied to some and not others. I guess we should ignore that top-down, this country is filled with leftist ideologues who violate laws, yet are not… [Read More]
Matt Barber: ‘Burn Kim Davis Alive!’
Mahatma Gandhi once said, “There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts.” He was partly right. Liberty of conscience is indeed sacred. There is, however, a higher court before which Mr. Gandhi – before which we all – will ultimately stand. It… [Read More]
Kentucky clerk Kim Davis due to return to work Today
A Kentucky county clerk who became the center of a national firestorm when her refusal to issue same-sex marriage licenses led to her brief jailing was due to return to work Monday. Kim Davis, the clerk for Rowan County, will have to choose whether to allow her office to continue issuing licenses or again disobey… [Read More]
Gay Marriage and the 10th Amendment
Elected Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis refused to grant a marriage license to homosexuals. She did so on religious grounds but it is not the freedom of religion clause of the First Amendment that justified her refusal but the 10th Amendment which recites: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor… [Read More]
Kim Davis again appeals to refuse gay marriage licenses
The Kentucky county clerk jailed for denying marriage licenses to same-sex couples appealed again Friday for a delay in having to issue the licenses. Lawyers for Kim Davis, who was jailed for five days, told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit that Davis shouldn’t have to begin issuing the licenses when she… [Read More]
Kentucky town’s brush with gay marriage spotlight stirs tensions
The calm that returned to Morehead, Kentucky - home to the county clerk who had refused to issue marriage licenses to gay couples - could be short-lived when Kim Davis returns to work on Monday, along with crowds of demonstrators and the media. Davis has been absent from work since she was released on Tuesday… [Read More]
Persecution Of Kim Davis Reminds Me Of Communist Russia
Jerry McGlothlin, The recent incarceration and Christian persecution of Rowan County, Kentucky, clerk Kim Davis brings back memories of the old Evil Empire of the Soviet Union. Historically, both the Soviet Union and the United States had one thing in common. They both had constitutions that had protections of human rights and freedoms. But the… [Read More]