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Related: About this forumKentucky clerk Davis rejects marriage licenses as invalid: ABC
Source: Reuters
US | Tue Sep 22, 2015 9:46am EDT
Kentucky clerk Davis rejects marriage licenses as invalid: ABC
The county clerk from Kentucky who went to jail rather than issue marriage licenses to gay couples said the licenses being granted by her staff are invalid, according to an interview that aired on Tuesday.
"I can't put my name on a license that doesn't represent what God ordained what marriage to be," Davis said in a television interview with ABC News, taped on Monday.
"They're not valid in God's eyes, for one," she said of licenses her staff has begun issuing. "I have given no authority to write a marriage license. They did not have my permission, they did not have my authorization."
Davis, 50, has said her Christian beliefs prevent her from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. She was released on the condition that she not interfere with the issuance of marriage licenses.
Davis added that she was prepared to return to jail over the controversy, according to ABC.
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Kentucky clerk Davis rejects marriage licenses as invalid: ABC
The county clerk from Kentucky who went to jail rather than issue marriage licenses to gay couples said the licenses being granted by her staff are invalid, according to an interview that aired on Tuesday.
"I can't put my name on a license that doesn't represent what God ordained what marriage to be," Davis said in a television interview with ABC News, taped on Monday.
"They're not valid in God's eyes, for one," she said of licenses her staff has begun issuing. "I have given no authority to write a marriage license. They did not have my permission, they did not have my authorization."
Davis, 50, has said her Christian beliefs prevent her from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. She was released on the condition that she not interfere with the issuance of marriage licenses.
Davis added that she was prepared to return to jail over the controversy, according to ABC.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/22/us-usa-gaymarriage-kentucky-license-idUSKCN0RM1G620150922
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Kentucky clerk Davis rejects marriage licenses as invalid: ABC (Original Post)
Eugene
Sep 2015
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TlalocW
(15,392 posts)1. I guess
The hoped-for crowdfunding, book offer, speaking tour, and other forms of grift never materialized.
TlalocW
shenmue
(38,506 posts)2. The fuck is she, religious king of the county?
You can only get married in her county if she and her church say it's okay?!
The fuck?
Historic NY
(37,454 posts)3. She wasn't asked to put her name on them...
a deputy can act in that capacity. She by fiat is nullifying the actions of her deputy or deputies.
Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)4. God damn her to hell. That woman is a monster.
A psychopath abusing the authority entrusted with her.