Jury Awards $100,000 to Gay Couple Rejected by Kim Davis
A jury has awarded $100,000 to a same-sex couple who were refused a marriage license in 2015 by then-Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis.
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A jury has awarded $100,000 to a same-sex couple who were refused a marriage license in 2015 by then-Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis.
Kim Davis in 2015 refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples following the US Supreme Court’s Obergefell v. Hodges decision that legalized same-sex marriage.
Former county clerk Kim Davis drew international attention when she was briefly jailed in 2015 for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
The judge hearing the claims by same-sex duos that they deserved money from former Rowan County, Kentucky, clerk Kim Davis because she initially withheld her signature on marriage certificates when liberals on the Supreme Court fabricated same-sex "marriage" for the country let lawyers sort out jurors and throw out the ones with religious beliefs.
The former clerk in Rowan County, Ky., was sued by two same-sex couples to whom she refused to grant marriage licenses, claiming it violated her religious beliefs. Her attorney says she will appeal.