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Kentucky county clerk who won’t issue marriage licenses to gays tells judge she ‘sought God’ in making her decision
Kentucky’s Rowan County Clerk testified in court Monday (20 July) about why she won’t issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
Kim Davis testified that her refusal has to do with her Christian beliefs.
‘If I authorize it, I’m saying I agree with it. I can’t do that,’ she told US District Judge David L. Bunning.
Davis, who took office in January, said she had prayed and fasted over what to do after the Supreme Court ruling.
‘It wasn’t just a spur-of-the-moment decision,’ the Courier-Journal reports Davis as saying. It was thought-out and I sought God on it.’
Davis came to national attention when she refused a same-sex couple a marriage license in a video that went viral. She came under fire when it was reported that she has been married four times, with some calling her hypocritical.
Rowan County is one of three counties in Kentucky that is attempting to keep same-gender couples from obtaining licenses. The US Supreme Court ruled last month that same-sex marriage is now legal nationwide.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a class action federal lawsuit against Davis on behalf of four couples who her office denied licenses – two heterosexual couples and two same-sex couples.
The lawsuit alleges Davis’ refusal is unconstitutional and seeks an injunction ordering Davis to begin issuing licenses.
Bunning is expected to issue his ruling the week of 11 August.
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