Rick Santorum: Kim Davis should ‘follow her conscience’

Since the decision was announced, there have been multiple reports of county clerks refusing to issue any marriage licenses at all.

Meanwhile in Kentucky, a Washington Post-ABC News poll showed that 63 percent of Americans want Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis to issue marriage licences to same-sex couples despite her religious objections.

For several weeks, the American Pastors Network (APN) has weighed in on the issue. Despite this, Davis refused to issue marriage licenses to any couple, regardless of gender or sexual orientation. What happened is, Davis engaged in an act of civil disobedience, ostensibly, to affirm her religious beliefs.

The new marriage license that the same-sex couple received on Monday reads, “Pursuant to federal court order” on it. Davis’ name and Rowan County is missing. The decision of the Nuremberg court sets a precedent for her refusal to obey a court order which is both immoral and shortsighted.

Perkins believes that Davis is changing the conversation surrounding gay marriage and religious exemptions, and that her much-publicized stance is having a political impact, as leaders in some areas of the country are considering how to prevent similar battles from unfolding. The form had been altered to remove the name and title of County Clerk Kim Davis.

On Constitution Day, September 17, Rohrer will be a featured speaker alongside Kim Davis’ husband, Joe Davis, religious liberties champion Rafael Cruz, evangelical leader Dr. Richard Land, Tennessee Pastors Network president Dale Walker, Tennessee Rep. Judd Matheny and Bishop E.W. Jackson at the “Stand in the Gap for Truth” Rally at 11 a.m.at the Legislative Plaza, 301 6th Ave N in Nashville.

Deputy clerks in Davis’ office began issuing licenses during the five-day period she was jailed.

Davis was released five days later, after Bunning issued another order that she not interfere with her deputy clerks’ issuance of licenses.

To be clear, these judges aren’t banning same-sex couples from obtaining marriage certificates – the judges don’t have that power.

The non-profit organization Planting Peace that also supports the LGBT community put up a billboard that criticizes Davis’ anti-gay belief and her personal interpretation of the Bible.

Though they could have gotten married in Lexington, Carmen “was raised and grew up in Morehead, so she really wanted to have the legalization up there”, Shannon said. Her latest appeal to allow her office to delay issuing the licenses was denied Tuesday by the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, which ruled the law, not the will of God, is the controlling authority in the case. “It is not OK to discriminate against people, and it’s especially not OK to use the government to discriminate against people”, said Davis Hammet, the non-profit organization’s non-director of operations. “But I came to the conclusion that the best thing for me to do was to stay here, do the job the people elected me to do and fight on a different level”.