Stories tagged with: kim davis

• Gay marriage suit reinstated against Ky. county clerk

  by Diana Chandler, posted Wednesday, May 03, 2017 (7 years ago)

  

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  CINCINNATI (BP) -- A Cincinnati appeals court has reinstated a homosexual couple's lawsuit seeking damages from county clerk Kim Davis who refused to issue the couple a marriage license because of her religion.

  Davis spent five days in jail when she refused repeatedly to issue a marriage license to David Ermold and David Moore, days after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized gay marriage across the nation in June 2015. Read More

• Kim Davis suit dismissed, but challenges persist

  by David Roach, posted Monday, August 22, 2016 (8 years ago)

  

  ASHLAND, Ky. (BP) -- Although a federal judge has dismissed three lawsuits against Kim Davis, a Kentucky county clerk who refused to grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples, the religious liberty of officials in other states continues to face legal challenges.

  Federal judge David Bunning, who jailed Davis for five days last year, closed the court's files on all cases against her Aug. 18 and ordered them removed from the docket. Read More

• Ky. Gov.-elect stands with Kim Davis

  by David Roach, posted Monday, November 09, 2015 (8 years ago)

  FRANKFORT, Ky. (BP) -- Kentucky's governor-elect has promised to remove county clerks' names from marriage licenses in an effort to safeguard the religious liberty of clerks who object to issuing licenses for same-sex couples.

  Matt Bevin, who will become Kentucky's second Republican governor in four decades when he takes office in December, told reporters Nov. 6 he disagrees with outgoing Democratic Gov. ... Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: Clerk's jailing signals 'sad era'

  by Paul Chitwood, posted Thursday, September 10, 2015 (9 years ago)

  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP) -- Paul Chitwood, executive director of the Kentucky Baptist Convention, sees the jailing of county clerk Kim Davis as signaling "a sad era for the American judicial system and Kentucky state government." Read More

• Judge orders Davis freed from jail

  by Tom Strode, posted Tuesday, September 08, 2015 (9 years ago)

  "So when is it that liberals get to choose which laws they support?"

  --Mike Huckabee

  ASHLAND, Ky. (BP) -- A federal judge freed Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis from jail Tuesday (Sept. 8).

  David Bunning, a federal judge in Ashland, Ky., ordered Davis' release after he became convinced the deputy clerks in her Rowan County office had obeyed his order to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported. He ordered Davis to jail Sept. 3 when she again refused to comply with his previous order to grant licenses. Read More

• Same-sex couples get licenses; clerk sits in jail

  by Tom Strode, posted Friday, September 04, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  Carter County (Ky.) Detention Center Photo

  MOREHEAD, Ky. (BP) -- Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis remained in jail Friday (Sept. 4) even as same-sex couples received marriage licenses from her office.

  William Smith and James Yates were the first of at least three gay couples to obtain licenses from deputy clerks in Rowan County after Davis refused for two months to grant the documents, citing her beliefs as a Christian. Five of Davis' deputy clerks agreed Thursday (Sept. 3) to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Read More

• Judge sends Kentucky county clerk to jail

  by Tom Strode, posted Thursday, September 03, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

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  ASHLAND, Ky. (BP) -- A federal judge jailed Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis Thursday (Sept. 3) for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

  In finding her in contempt of court, Judge David Bunning rejected the option of fining Davis, instead ordering federal marshals to take her into custody until she agrees to abide by his earlier order to provide licenses to gay couples, according to The Louisville Courier-Journal. ... Read More

• Clerk loses, resists high court on marriage licenses

  by Tom Strode, posted Tuesday, September 01, 2015 (9 years ago)

  "This case is just another step along the sad road where erotic liberty trumps religious liberty.” -- Paul Chitwood

  MOREHEAD, Ky. (BP) -- A Kentucky county clerk not only lost at the U.S. Supreme Court Monday evening (Aug. 31) but now faces a likely contempt of court ruling for again refusing to grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

  Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis and her deputies turned away gay couples seeking marriage licenses Tuesday morning (Sept. 1) at their office in the eastern Kentucky town of Morehead. Their refusal came after the high court denied Davis’ request to ... Read More