MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) — The latest on the defiant Kentucky clerk who has refused to issue marriage licenses to gay couples, disobeying a federal judge and serving five days in jail for contempt (all times local): UPDATED 1:45 p.m.: A spokeswoman for Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway says he has reviewed marriage licenses issued in […]
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Kentucky clerk Kim Davis leaves jail
GRAYSON, Ky. — The latest on the case of a Kentucky county clerk who’s in jail over her refusal to issue marriage licenses to gay couples (all times local): Updated 2:50 p.m.: The lawyer for a county clerk in Kentucky who has been released from jail after she defied court orders says the marriage licenses issued […]
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Judge orders Kentucky clerk to issue marriage licenses or be jailed
ASHLAND, Ky. (AP) — The latest on the county clerk in Kentucky who has refused to issue marriage licenses since the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage (all times local): UPDATED 3:20 p.m.: Five of the six deputy clerks in a Kentucky county say they will issue marriage licenses to gay couples, despite their boss’ refusal […]
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Kentucky clerk refuses to issue marriage licenses on ‘God’s authority’
MOREHEAD, Ky. — Kim Davis sat in a church pew on a Sunday morning about four years ago, listening as the man in the pulpit preached of forgiveness and God’s grace. Davis until then might have seemed an unlikely candidate to wage a moral war over the institution of marriage. She has acknowledged through her […]
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Kentucky clerk still refuses to issue gay marriage licenses
Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis explainsPosted by The Courier-Journal | courier-journal.com on Tuesday, September 1, 2015 UPDATED 12:03 PM: Federal Judge orders Kentucky clerk to appear in court MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) — A county clerk in Kentucky who has invoked “God’s authority” and is defying the U.S. Supreme Court by refusing to license same-sex marriage […]
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Maine high court rules anti-gay marriage group must report donors
AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine’s highest court on Tuesday rejected a national anti-gay marriage group’s latest bid to shield the identities of the donors who contributed to its effort to defeat the state’s gay marriage law in 2009. The National Organization for Marriage had sought permission to delay submitting a campaign finance report that the Maine […]
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Dissenting court opinion got it right
Who knew that inherent rights are a political bombshell? Justice Clarence Thomas set off a controversy in his dissent in the Supreme Court’s gay-marriage decision by reciting core American beliefs about the innate dignity and rights of all persons, whatever their circumstances or the injustices done to them. He wrote that even people held in […]
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Portland gay marriage advocate among lawyers arguing before Supreme Court
WASHINGTON — Five lawyers will take turns at the Supreme Court lectern Tuesday for the highly anticipated and extended arguments over same-sex marriage. Among them are the Obama administration’s top lawyer at the high court, with more than two dozen arguments behind him, and two lawyers making their first appearance before the justices. The cases […]
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Leonard Pitts: Jeb Bush straddles fence on gay marriage issue
“You’re like a dull knife, just ain’t cuttin’, just talkin’ loud and saying nothing” — James Brown Granted, it’s not entirely fair to use that lyric to describe Jeb Bush’s comments on same-sex marriage. After all, he is not known to have talked loudly. But he was definitely saying nothing. That, admittedly, may be a […]
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Maine orders anti-gay marriage group to pay $50,000 fine, reveal donors
AUGUSTA — Maine’s ethics panel on Wednesday fined a national anti-gay marriage group more than $50,000 and ordered it to file a campaign finance report that would reveal the donors behind the 2009 repeal of the state’s gay marriage law after finding that it violating Maine’s campaign finance laws. The panel ruled that the National […]