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“I do not deny that the meeting took place”, Father Federico Lombardi, the director of the Holy See Press Office, said, according to The Wall Street Journal. Davis said the Pope thanked her for her courage and advised her to “stay strong”.

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.

ABC News reported that Father Benedettini of the Vatican’s press department issued a statement that said “the Holy See is aware of the reports of Kim Davis meeting with the Holy Father”.

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 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.

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...

Again, she was out not because she had done anything to earn her freedom, but because her deputies did the job Davis wouldn’t do and issued the marriage licenses as required by a U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding gay marriage.

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.

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

“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...