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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...

Kim Davis is set to return to work on Monday.

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

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...

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.

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...

The couple first headed right down to the Rowan County Clerk’s Workplace on July 6, shortly after the proposal, however Smith stated the identical workplace worker they talked to right now advised them on the time that Davis “wasn’t handing out licenses as a...

Moreover, Davis’ legal reasoning doesn’t hold water as she knew full well going into the election for her position that she would have the distinct probability of having to issue licenses to same-sex couples as a core component of her taxpayer-funded position.

A federal judge says Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis will have to resume issuing marriage licenses on August 31st unless an appeals court says otherwise according to Kentucky Public Radio Capitol Reporter Ryland Barton.

Should the Supreme Court have taken the power to decide the same-sex marriage issue away from the people in the states? Government, like any employer, has an obligation under federal law to accommodate her religious convictions, he said.

U.S. District Judge David L. Bunning rejected Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis’ claim that her Christian faith should exempt her from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples and ordered her on Wednesday to hand out the licenses. “Though she has six employees...

When asked what is “more important for the government to do” in a conflict – protection “religious liberties” or protect “the rights of gays and lesbians” – Americans chose religious liberties, 56-39 percent.

At the University of Tennessee, Chancellor Jimmy Cheek told employees via email that UT will offer insurance benefits to married same-sex couples following the Supreme Court decision, describing it as “historic”.