Less than 24 hours after a federal judge ruled that a Kentucky clerk’s office cannot turn away same-sex couples who wish to obtain marriage licenses based on religious beliefs, that same office turned away two gay couples seeing marriage licenses on Thursday. Despite U.S. District Judge David L. Bunning’s ruling that Rowan County Clark Kim ...
A county clerk in the state of Kentucky will have to issue same-sex marriage licenses despite her religious beliefs. On Wednesday, a federal judge ruled that Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis must issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples or risk setting a “dangerous precedent.” The ruling comes a couple of months after same-sex marriage became ...
Rev. Maurice “Bojangles” Blanchard and Dominique James, a gay couple living in Kentucky, were found guilty of trespassing after refusing to leave the Jefferson County clerk’s office when denied a marriage license. Now the violation will hit them heavy in the pockets. According to the Associated Press on November 26, a jury decided to fine ...
