Kentucky clerk ordered to jail for refusing to issue gay marriage license - The Washington Post
A federal judge has ordered Kim Davis, a Kentucky county clerk, to jail after she refused to issue marriage licenses to gay couples. (AP) By James Higdon and Sandhya Somashekhar September 3 at 10:37 PM Follow @sandhyawp ASHLAND, Ky. — For a moment there, it looked as though Kim Davis might stay out of jail. The 49-year-old Kentucky county clerk, who grabbed the national spotlight by refusing in the face of multiple court orders to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, had been given an out. She could remain a free woman, the judge said, if she gave permission to her deputies to sign the certificates in her stead. The judge gave her time to consult with her attorneys. But when the court reconvened after a short recess Thursday, Davis was not in her seat. An attorney explained that Davis, an Apostolic Christian, "does not grant her authority nor would allow any employee to issue those licenses." And so Davis consigned herself to jail,Read full article from Kentucky clerk ordered to jail for refusing to issue gay marriage license - The Washington Post
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