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Kentucky governor says marriage licenses altered by Kim Davis should be legally valid
Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear has told a judge that he believes marriage licenses altered by same-sex marriage foe Kim Davis should be legally valid.
Davis is the Rowan County Clerk who made headlines for months after she refused to issue marriage licenses to any couples after the US Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriage was now legal in all 50 states.
After serving six days in a Kentucky jail for defying US District Judge David Bunning’s order that she issue the licenses, Davis returned to work and altered the licenses so that her name did not appear on them.
‘While the altered licenses issued by the Rowan County clerk’s office do not fully comply with the statute, such deviation does not necessarily render the licenses ineffective or the marriages solemnized pursuant to said licenses invalid,’ wrote Palmer Vance II, an attorney representing Beshear in a lawsuit filed against Davis by couples seeking marriage licenses.
The couples want Bunning to order Davis to return the marriage licenses issued by her office to their original format because she has created ‘a two-tier system of marriage licenses.’
Bunning has not yet responded to this latest legal request by the couples but he has yet to rule in Davis’ favor in a series of earlier decisions.
Beshear, who leaves office in December, has said that Davis should do her job – which includes issuing marriage licenses – or resign.
His successor, Republican Governor-elect Matt Bevin, has vowed to take the county clerk’s office out of the marriage license business overall and have them handled by a state agency, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader.
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