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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.

News sites have mostly written about her standoffs with same-sex couples or her five-day stint in jail.

As it turns out, according to USA Today on Wednesday, the Vatican has confirmed the meeting, although they have refused to add any other details other than the fact that it took place.

Davis said, according to the Liberty Counsel. Staver said he was there when a auto picked up the Davises to take them to the embassy.

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”.

Davis and her husband met privately with Francis last Thursday afternoon at the Vatican Embassy in Washington, D.C., for less than 15 minutes, her lawyer, Mat Staver has said.

A federal judge ordered Davis to jail earlier this month over her refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in the Kentucky county where she’s clerk.

The Vatican released the following statement after becoming aware that reports were circulating that Davis had allegedly met with the pope: “The Holy See is aware of the reports of Kim Davis meeting with the Holy Father”.

Francis did not specifically mention Davis in his reply, noting, “I can’t have in mind all the cases that can exist about conscientious objection”. Francis said that anyone, or any entity, who denies conscientious objection denies a right.

Davis replied, “I’ve already done that”.

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...

Davis was wrong in initially denying marriage licenses after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled same-sex couples have a right to marry throughout the country under the federal Constitution. That vote put her in the chair her own Democratic mom had filled for 37 years.

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...

“I’m not sure”, he said when asked whether Davis knows any gay people. This new license deleted all mentions of the county, removed her name, and deleted every reference to the deputy clerks.