BREAKING: Appeals court upholds gay marriage ruling in Kentucky
http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2015/08/breaking-appeals-court-upholds-gay-marriage-ruling-in-kentucky/
CLAIRE GALOFARO and ADAM BEAM | Associated Press
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
MOREHEAD, Ky. — A federal appeals court has upheld a ruling ordering a Kentucky county clerk to issue marriage licenses to gay couples.
Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis objects to same-sex marriage for religious reasons. She stopped issuing marriage licenses the day after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned state bans on same-sex marriage.
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It's about time. Maybe Ms. Davis will get it through her head that if you are hired to do a civil, secular job, you can claim that you can't do it because of religious objection. But there is precedent being set where companies permit Muslim clerks have someone else record pork of liquor sales in grocery stores.
The precedent doesn't apply. The ruling said that the State couldn't discriminate. As the county clerk she represented the state and said that neither she, or her staff could issue the license. Not at all the same as a single staff in a private business having an issue. I wouldn't worry.
I'd be curious to know who is paying her legal bills. Is it the clerk's office? Is she paying out of pocket? Or is she getting outside money?
That, Suzi, is an excellent question.
According to this story (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/27/us/court-rules-clerk-must-issue-licenses-for-same-sex-marriages.html) in the New York Times, Ms. Davis could take her appeal to the Supreme Court "as early as Thursday." Today, in other words...