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The recent controversy relating to Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk that was jailed for exercising her First Amendment right for not issuing licenses for gay marriages that were recently ruled protected under the U.S. Constitution, raises the issue of the legality of that ruling.

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

But here is what I want to say to Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis: perhaps before you use your religion and your position in the community to determine what constitutes an appropriate marriage, you should reflect on your three divorces and then decide if you should be considered an...

Demonstrators show their support for Kim Davis outside the Rowan County Clerk’s Office in Morehead, Kentucky, September 14, 2015.

Kim Davis is set to return to work on Monday.

“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...

A county clerk has appealed a judge’s decision to put her in jail for refusing to issue marriage licences to same-sex couples. John Kasich said that Davis should comply with the judge’s order, saying that while he respected her convictions, she is a government...

While Kentucky clerk Kim Davis sits in jail for being in contempt of court after refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples, her lawyers are hard at work trying to clean up her mess and the judge is in a bind when it comes to hitting her where it hurts.

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...

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

She has refused to issue any marriage licenses since the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage ruling in June.

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.

Many of Kentucky’s Republican and Democratic leaders are pushing for a change to the state’s marriage license law so that clerks won’t have to sign off on the forms.

James Yates and William Smith Jr. were turned away by a deputy clerk in Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis’ office Thursday morning when they asked for a marriage license. U.S. District Judge David Bunning ordered Davis to issue marriage licenses two weeks ago. Davis has not...