She has argued that issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples
would go against her deeply held religious beliefs that marriage should
only be between a man and a woman.
Kentucky clerk continues to deny same-sex couples marriage licenses (Kentucky)
A day after a federal appeals court ruled that Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis must issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, her office in eastern Kentucky continued to defy the order.
"Currently everything remains the same," said Nathan Davis, her son and a deputy clerk, referring further questions to his mother's lawyers.
Her
office's confirmation of the refusal follows a report by the Lexington
Herald-Leader newspaper that a gay couple was turned down for a license
earlier on Thursday morning.
On Wednesday, the 6th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Davis' office could not
decline to hand out licenses given the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling
legalizing gay marriage nationwide. The Rowan County clerk has not
issued any marriage licenses since the court's June ruling.
Kim
Davis and other officials and businesses in Colorado, Florida,
Mississippi and South Carolina are fighting different aspects of the top
U.S. court's ruling.
She has argued that issuing
marriage licenses to same-sex couples would go against her deeply held
religious beliefs that marriage should only be between a man and a
woman.
A spokeswoman for Liberty Counsel, which is
representing Davis, said on Thursday that she is not issuing licenses
pending her appeal of the case to the Supreme Court. Also, a temporary
stay that had granted Davis time to make her appeal to the circuit
court, remained in effect through Aug. 31, according to Liberty Counsel
attorney Roger Gannam.
The same-sex couples who
are plaintiffs in the case, after Davis refused them a marriage license,
were not immediately available for comment on Thursday. The couple
denied a license on Thursday is not one of the parties in the case.
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