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Kim Davis accused of interfering with marriage licenses – ACLU asks judge to intervene
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a motion in Kentucky District Court on Monday (21 September) accusing Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis of violating a federal judge’s order.
Davis was released from jail on 8 September on the condition that the same-sex marriage opponent not interfere with the marriage license process in the clerk’s office.
The ACLU states in the motion that Davis has directed the significant alteration of licenses and had a deputy sign them as a notary public rather than as a deputy clerk. Any reference to the Rowan County clerk’s office has been removed from the licenses.
In their motion, the group is asking the court to order the clerk’s office to issue the same licenses that were issued on or before Davis’ release from jail. It asks the court to order the deputy clerks to disregard any contrary instructions from Davis and requests that she be ordered to immediately stop interfering.
If the situation persists, the ACLU asks that Davis face civil contempt fines and that the clerk’s office be placed into a receivership for the purpose of issuing marriage licenses.
‘The clerk’s office needs to issue valid licenses that comply with the court’s orders,’ said James Esseks, director of the ACLU’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Project. ‘It’s sad that Ms. Davis has continued to interfere with the basic constitutional right of all loving couples to marry and that the plaintiff couples have to ask the court to intervene once again.’
Davis has cited religious beliefs in her refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. She was locked up in a Kentucky jail for five days earlier this month for defying a federal court’s order that she allow the licenses to be issued by her deputies.
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