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Kentucky Clerk returns to work - won't authorize same-sex marriage licenses
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Kentucky Clerk, Kim Davis returned to work last week after being jailed for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses. Davis was released from jail five days after her sentencing and ordered not to interfere with the issuing of marriage licenses.
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Catholic Online (https://www.catholic.org)
9/14/2015 (9 years ago)
Published in U.S.
Keywords: Kim Davis, Kentucky Clerk, same-sex marriage license, marriage, same-sex, gay marriage, Kentucky, Apostolic Christian
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Davis, a Rowan County Clerk, made a stand with her Apostolic Christian beliefs, stating it prevented her from issuing same-sex marriage licenses.
Now that she has returned to work, she states she will not authorize any same-sex licenses, but she will not prevent her deputies from doing so.
"I don't want to have this conflict. I don't want to be in the spotlight, and I certainly don't want to be a whipping post," Davis said, according to Reuters. "I am no hero. I am just a person who has been transformed by the grace of God and who wants to work, be with my family"
According to Davis, any marriage licenses issues will not carry her name, title or personal authorization -noting she would not punish deputies who issue those licensees, but she "does not believe they have the authority to do so."
Davis was sentenced to jail for refusing to comply with an order to issue licenses in line with the Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage. Once her deputies began issuing the refused licenses, she was released.
U.S. District Judge David Bunning, who ordered Davis jailed, stated there would be "consequences if she interfered with the issuance of marriage licenses, directly or indirectly, when she returned to work."
According to Reuters, on Friday, Davis and her attorney asked the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to "allow her to continue banning marriage licenses for her entire office until a lawsuit against her is decided," arguing the initial order only fit those couples who were suing her.
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