A federal appeals court last week said a Kentucky county clerk who has resisted the U.S. Supreme Court’s gay-marriage ruling on religious grounds cannot continue to withhold marriage licenses altogether from same-sex and opposite-sex couples.
Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis stopped issuing marriage licenses all together rather than comply with the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in June striking down state bans on same-sex marriage. Davis, who opposes same-sex marriage, argued that Gov. Steve Beshear’s July mandate to issue such licenses violated her free exercise rights under the First Amendment and Kentucky’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act. A trial judge ruled against Davis. She took the case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, which refused to put on hold a court order requiring her to issue marriage licenses.
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