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Clerk Summoned to Court for Refusing to Issue Marriage Licenses

Posted by: Amelia Ferrell Knisely on Sep 1, 2015

U.S. District Judge David Bunning summoned Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis and her staff to appear in his court following Davis' refusal to issue marriage licenses, the National Law Journal reports. On Monday, the Supreme Court rejected Davis' request for protection from having to issue marriage licenses, pending the outcome of her appeal. Davis stopped issuing all marriage licenses after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in June, citing religious objections to same-sex marriage. Tuesday the American Civil Liberties Union filed contempt motions against Davis. "The law is clear and the courts have spoken," ACLU national legal director Steven Shapiro said in a statement. "The duty of public officials is to enforce the law, not place themselves above it.”