Kim Davis Won’t Resign, Plans to Appeal Contempt Ruling

She denied the couple more than three times, so U.S. District Judge David Bunning found her in contempt of court.

A deputy clerk of the Clerk of Courts office fills out a marriage licence for Timothy and Michael Long in the Rowan County Courthouse yesterday in Morehead, Kentucky. She and her partner, Karen Roberts, were the third couple to receive their license in Rowan County. As she was in jail Friday, one of her deputy clerks handed out two licenses to gay couples.

A second gay couple has arrived at a Kentucky clerk’s office to apply for a marriage license.

Trump said that given Davis’s beliefs, she could have permitted her deputies to issue the licenses, which she refused to do. But he also said, “Kim Davis is content with wherever she is”. He subsequently ordered her to issue the licenses.

Around 300 of her supporters rallied Saturday, chanting outside the jail house, “Thank you, Kim” and praying that she could hear them. She has pledged she never will.

Davis’ son sat stoically as the judge questioned the clerks, some of whom were reluctant. Mr. Staver said he did not know either, but her attorneys planned to file an appeal of the contempt order later Friday.

“Last night Kim Davis was incarcerated in a jail cell while the rest of us slept in our comfortable beds”. They said Davis is not following his Christian faith.

Although he would not comment on who instructed him to replace Davis’ name, another clerk said that as “a group we [the clerk’s office] decided to issue [the licenses] from Rowan County“. “I think everybody in that office should have stood behind Kim Davis“.

Plaintiffs’ attorney Laura Landenwich says despite their request for a monetary fine the judge chose jail for Davis.

“Jeb Bush: “[Davis] is sworn to uphold the law and it seems to me there ought to be common ground, there ought to be big enough space for her to act on her conscience and for, now that the law is the law of the land, for a gay couple to be married in whatever jurisdiction that is”. “Pray that America repents of the sin of celebrating sexual perversion and imprisoning Christian dissidents”.

A lot about this story remains unclear: Attorneys for Davis said that without her signature, those licenses are void.

Same-sex couples will return to the Rowan County Courthouse in Kentucky on Friday for the fifth time since June to ask for a marriage license. “That is for Kim Davis a heaven or hell decision”.

A Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll in the United States this week showed 49.2% of those surveyed support same-sex marriages, 36.5% oppose them, and 14.3% are unsure.

The issuance of the licenses followed months of legal wrangling between Davis and the courts that drew global attention and protests from supporters and opponents of gay marriage.