Rural Kentucky town lifts gay marriage ban

“We’re just really happy right now to finally get married and have it recognised here”, Yates, who proposed to Smith this year after a 10-year relationship, said shortly before getting the license.

Republican presidential candidate John Kasich said a Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses for same-sex couples is “not running a church” and must “comply” with a U.S. Supreme Court ruling legalizing gay marriage.

Civil rights activists had hoped to avoid Davis being jailed and turned into a martyr for her cause.

On Saturday hundreds of people gathered in support of Kim Davis outside the Carter County Jail.

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Davis’ son, who said he supports his mother, was warned by the judge Thursday not to interfere with his fellow employees.

Kim Davis now wears an orange jumpsuit and “has already been doing Bible studies with herself” in jail, her attorney Mat Staver of Liberty Counsel told reporters after meeting with her behind bars.

While Judge David Bunning has said Davis can be released as soon as she agrees to issue marriage licenses to anyone who qualifies, as her position requires, or resigns from that position, she can be held indefinitely if she refuses to do so.

While they may not know each other, Van Buren County Clerk Pam Bradford feels a strong connection to Rowan County Kentucky Clerk, Kim Davis. State lawmakers will not meet until January.

“She said she played in the devil’s playground for a long time, and her life has been radically changed since then”, attorney Staver said.

Bunning did not say how long Davis would remain in jail.

“Gavin Newsom in San Francisco as mayor performed same-sex weddings even though it was illegal”.

The highly controversial Kentucky clerk Kim Davis is sticking to her religious convictions, refusing to resign from her job and expecting the local government to give in first. But her religious convictions do not excuse her from having to apply the law as it stands in her official duties, a commitment she made when she took office.

He said they are only issuing the licenses because the judge is forcing them to, the Washington Post said.

“I don’t want her in jail”, Yates said, about Davis. And happily, courts everywhere have agreed with a ruling in the case of a Colorado couple that the sale of a cake implies no approval of what it’s for.

“It’s very clear that what this did was open up a Pandora’s box for an attack against Christianity and tolerance is only going one way and that’s toward the other side”, Ohio-resident Stephanie Hunley told NPR after driving more than two hours to be at the rally.