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Karla Ward. July 24, 2024 at 1:00 AM. Pablo Alcala/palcala@herald-leader.com. Former Rowan County clerk Kim Davis is arguing in federal appeals court that the Supreme Court decision on gay ...
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Kim Davis, the county clerk for Rowan County in Kentucky, works with the county election board on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, in Morehead, Ky. Davis, who went to jail in 2015 for refusing ...
Kimberly Jean Davis (née Bailey; born September 17, 1965) is an American former county clerk for Rowan County, Kentucky, who gained international attention in August 2015 when she defied a U.S. federal court order to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples . Davis was elected Rowan County Clerk in 2014. The following year, the Supreme ...
Same-sex marriage has been legal in Kentucky since the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges on June 26, 2015. The decision, which struck down Kentucky's statutory and constitutional bans on same-sex marriages, was handed down on June 26, 2015, and Governor Steve Beshear and Attorney General Jack Conway announced almost immediately that the court's order would be implemented.
Miller v. Davis is a federal lawsuit in the United States regarding the issuance of marriage licenses to same-sex couples. After the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide on June 26, 2015, the county clerk of Rowan County, Kentucky, Kim Davis, refused to issue marriage licenses to any couple to avoid issuing them to same-sex couples, citing her religious beliefs.
Kentucky lawmakers later changed the rules to remove county clerks’ names from marriage licenses. However, several couples who had been turned away at Davis’ office in the summer of 2015 sued her.
Section 741.04. Marriage license issued. No county court judge or clerk of the circuit court in this state shall issue a license for the marriage of any person … unless one party is a male and the other party is a female. Section 741.212. Marriages between persons of the same sex