Washington (CNN)The Supreme Court on Monday night denied an emergency application from a Kentucky clerk who has been refusing to issue marriage licenses because of her religious objections to same-sex marriage.
The clerk, Kim Davis, sought to put a lower court ruling on hold pending appeal, and in a one-page order the Supreme Court refused.
Davis is now faced with a lower court order that her office begin issuing licenses effective Monday.
The order marks the first time the issue of same-sex marriage has come back to the justices since they issued an opinion last June clearing the way for same-sex couples to marry nationwide.
Davis, of the Rowan County Clerk's office, has refused to issue any marriage licenses since the decision -- Obergefell v. Hodges -- came down. She is an Apostolic Christian who says that she has a sincere religious objection to same-sex marriage. Other clerks in the state have expressed concern, but Davis is the only one turning away eligible couples.
In Court papers, lawyers for Davis said that her "conscience forbids her from approving a (same-sex marriage) license -- because the prescribed form mandates that she authorize the proposed union and issue a license bearing her own name and imprimatur."
"In her belief," the lawyers wrote, "(same-sex marriage) is not, in fact, marriage."
They said issuing a same-sex license would amount to a "searing act of validation" that would "forever echo in her conscience."
"Not gonna lie; I kind of keep expecting you to post one day that you threw down on someone who clearly had no idea that today was NOT THEIR DAY." ~dontcallmeshirley
It's pretty convenient that her first 3 divorces didn't "forever echo in her conscience." Dumb bitch. I wonder why no one would want to stay married to her?
This makes me a tad bit gleeful. I'm curious what other crazy things she will come up with to defend her bigotness and hatred, and I kind of want to see it blow up in her face.
Sounds like it's time to test her convictions and throw her in jail. Or fine the hell out of her. I mean the judge can't be happy with an official publicly defying orders. She serves the taxpayers - ALL of them.
"This prick is asking for someone here to bring him to task Somebody give me some dirt on this vacuous mass so we can at last unmask him I'll pull the trigger on it, someone load the gun and cock it While we were all watching, he got Washington in his pocket."
This woman is going to try to make herself a martyr. I hope they just fine the shit out of her and don't actually make her do jail time. Fines would hurt her bottom line; jail time means CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION Y'ALL.
This woman is going to try to make herself a martyr. I hope they just fine the shit out of her and don't actually make her do jail time. Fines would hurt her bottom line; jail time means CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION Y'ALL.
Agreed. And I'm willing to bet that her resolve crumbles a whole hell of a lot faster when it's her bank account that suffers rather than just sitting in a cell to soak up publicity for her "cause."
You know why I hate this woman? Because she causes me to find a little bit of respect for the clerks that quit over having to give out marriage licenses to SS couples. I didn't like those people all that much either, but hell, at least they quit and didn't drag the entire county into their fight.