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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.

When the University of Missouri hosts South Carolina on Saturday they will be without starting quarterback Maty Mauk.

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”.

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.

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.

Davis was jailed for five days when she refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in her county and didn’t comply with a federal judge’s order to do so.

Kentucky went 2-0-0 last weekend to move to 8-1-1 overall on the season. “It starts out front”.

Towles has thrown more interceptions (4) than touchdowns (3) this season, and hasn’t completed a touchdown pass since a Week 1 win against Louisiana Lafayette. The Wildcats are 5-11 ATS in their last 16 games in September and 7-19 ATS in their last 26 conference games. In...

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...

“And I was real good at livin’ for the devil”. When I look at you I see George Wallace – and so does the Supreme Court. That is her only option, and were he alive today, Thomas Jefferson would say the same thing. Davis, who was elected as a Democrat in...

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.