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Four Kentucky couples demand Kim Davis reissue altered marriage licenses
Source: Associated Press
Four Kentucky couples demand Kim Davis reissue altered marriage licenses
Associated Press in Frankurt, Kentucky
Tuesday 22 September 2015 19.14 BST
A US clerk who has already spent five days in jail because she refused to issue marriage licenses could be back in court soon for altering documents issued to same-sex couples, even as she insists she’s not a homophobe and has never said anything hateful.
On Monday, lawyers for two gay couples and two straight couples questioned the validity of the new marriage licenses and asked a federal judge to order Kim Davis’s office to reissue them. If she refuses, the lawyers asked the judge to put the office in receivership and have someone else do it.
It was not immediately clear if Davis’s office had issued any marriage licenses to straight couples since she introduced the new documents and whether they would also be similarly altered.
Davis is prepared to return to jail over her beliefs, according to an interview that aired on Tuesday morning on Good Morning America – the first she’s given since her refusal to issue licenses gained national attention after a US supreme court ruling effectively legalized gay marriage nationwide.
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Associated Press in Frankurt, Kentucky
Tuesday 22 September 2015 19.14 BST
A US clerk who has already spent five days in jail because she refused to issue marriage licenses could be back in court soon for altering documents issued to same-sex couples, even as she insists she’s not a homophobe and has never said anything hateful.
On Monday, lawyers for two gay couples and two straight couples questioned the validity of the new marriage licenses and asked a federal judge to order Kim Davis’s office to reissue them. If she refuses, the lawyers asked the judge to put the office in receivership and have someone else do it.
It was not immediately clear if Davis’s office had issued any marriage licenses to straight couples since she introduced the new documents and whether they would also be similarly altered.
Davis is prepared to return to jail over her beliefs, according to an interview that aired on Tuesday morning on Good Morning America – the first she’s given since her refusal to issue licenses gained national attention after a US supreme court ruling effectively legalized gay marriage nationwide.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/22/kentucky-kim-davis-same-sex-couples-altered-marriage-licenses
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