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She has now filed a lawsuit against Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear, in order to avoid issuing marriage licences to same-sex couples.

Davis, an elected Democrat who switched to the Republican Party in the midst of the controversy, claimed offering marriage licenses to gay couples was against “God’s authority”.

This would be true anywhere, but it’s especially true in Kentucky, which is one of the least-polarized states in the country (Democrats outnumber Republicans in partisan registration by quite a bit, yet the state is reliably red in presidential elections). Ted Cruz...

Democrats make up 65 percent of the county’s 14,000 registered voters, but Davis’ switch is not a huge surprise because many Kentucky Democrats still represent the party of decades ago, which was long dominated by rural whites with conservative values.

The ACLU asked Bunning to implement “coercive monetary fines” and possibly place the clerk’s office into receivership “for the limited purposes of issuing marriage licenses and the imposition of coercive monetary fines to compel her compliance with the...

If she refuses, the lawyers asked the judge to put the office in receivership and have someone else do it. In other words, without a petulant declaration of only doing this because they made me.

Kim Davis is at it again, but this time the clerk is altering marriage licenses instead of refusing to grant these legal documents.

She’ll question Davis on whether or not she not she disobeyed a federal judge’s order regarding altering the marriage license forms of same-sex couples.

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

Davis was ordered there after refusing to follow a court order that she issue marriage licenses to same sex couples.

“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.

Those of us who support the progress this nation has made in terms of marriage equality will find a way to leave Kim Davis and her non-progressive denial in the dust. They do not want her name on any official document that permits same-sex couples to get married. The state...

Five out of six deputies in her office, however, said they would be willing to grant licenses to same-sex couples, and at least three such couples have obtained them today. Deputy clerk Brian Mason, who had a sign in the office reading “marriage licence deputy”, shook...

As Kentucky Public Radio’s Ryland Barton reports, Davis, who has become a divisive figure in the national debate on same-sex marriage, has been summoned to a federal court on Thursday for a hearing on whether to hold her in contempt.

Davis argues that signing off on the licenses for same-sex couples violates her beliefs as an Apostolic Christian. Davis continued to refuse to issue marriage licenses even after Bunning ordered her two weeks ago to do so.