KY Gov. Matt Bevin Strips Clerk Names From Marriage Form

She added: “No one would ever have remembered a county clerk that just said …” ‘Even though I don’t agree with it, it’s OK.

“I’m very upset, I’m hurt”, he said when he learned of Bevin’s order.

Davis took steps to remove her name and office from the forms after she was released and a deputy clerk has issued licenses since she was jailed in early September. Beshear had refused, arguing only the state legislature had the authority to change the state law requiring the contents of the marriage license form.

Davis spoke with The Associated Press on Tuesday morning.

Bevin’s Executive Order Tuesday directs Kentucky’s Department of Libraries and Archives to modify the licenses to omit requirements for clerks’ signatures.

Kentucky Republican senatorial candidate Matt Bevin talks with his campaign supporters at his campaign headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky, May 19, 2014.

“You’re imposing the same indignities on couples in Rowan County, [Kentucky, ] that John and I suffered when OH would not legally recognize us as a married couple”, wrote Obergefell, referring to his late husband, John Arthur.

“It doesn’t come out of the blue, because this was something Governor Bevin was promising to do during his campaign”, said Chris Hartman, director of Fairness Campaign. “I wouldn’t take anything away from him”.

He said the ACLU is working with couples “who hold marriage licenses of questionable validity” and “will continue to challenge government officials who disregard the law in favor of promoting their own personal beliefs to the detriment of the rights of others”. He told WFPL: “There is no question that the case of Kim Davis and the issue of religious freedom played a role in the governor’s lopsided win”. Under a compromise reached after she left jail, licenses were issued by her office without her name or signature. The clerks did so, and Bunning released Davis after five days. She was subsequently jailed for contempt of court.

“How ironic that God would use a person like me, who failed so miserably at marriage in the world, to defend it now”. ‘The Lord picks the unlikely source to convey the message’.

Davis, an apostolic Christian who serves as clerk in Rowan County, has said it would violate her faith to put her name on marriage licenses between two people of the same gender.

In follow-up move, the American Civil Liberties Union had called on the courts to order Davis to reverse the changes, saying they amount to interference.