Reuters Legal Update: -Kentucky Clerk Seeks Same-Sex Marriage License Reprieve
A county clerk in Kentucky sought an emergency injunction on Wednesday to temporarily block a federal court order requiring her to issue same-sex marriage licenses as she prepares to go to court on Thursday to face contempt charges.
Kim Davis, the elected Rowan County clerk, says her religious beliefs as an Apostolic Christian stop her from issuing marriage licenses to gay couples as ordered by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. A U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June made gay marriage legal across the United States and the top court declined to hear Davis’ case.
“An injunction pending appeal will halt the irreversible implications on Davis’ conscience while the Sixth Court reviews Davis’ appeal of her individual claims and the multiple less restrictive alternatives available that do not substantially burden Davis, and her religious beliefs about marriage that can be measured in millennia,” the filing said.
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