KY Clerk who Refused to Issue Gay Marriage Licenses Held in Contempt and Ordered to Jail

YOUNG CONS ^ | September 3, 2015 | Michael Cantrell

[DoodleDawg]

She is now a POLITICAL PRISONER

Prisoner of conscience is probably more accurate. She's not in jail over her political beliefs but her spiritual ones.

[pleasenotcalifornia]

People need to go out in huge numbers to support her. If the number of supporters are deemed small the Feds will keep upping the ante.

[dforest]

The judge cited her for contempt of court supposedly because she didn’t show up for the second hearing.

[MDLION]

She was in the hallway for the second hearing but didn’t have to be in the courtroom. She was jailed for failing to comply with the order. Judge Bunning said he’s religious too, but his oath trumps his personal beliefs. 5 of the 6 deputies in the Rowan County Clerk’s Office told Bunning that they will issue gay marriage licenses. That will apparently happen today. Even if that happens, don’t believe for a second they’ll leave Davis alone until she says she’ll issue gay marriage licenses. The real agenda is the silencing of dissent.

[xzins]

tomayto tomahto

:>)

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Oh, I had no idea that she was elected. Still, the local government needs to take whatever steps through their administrative process. Getting a judge immediately involved and throwing people in jail is screwed up. That doesn’t happen in Congress and we all know how badly they’ve been screwing-off in their jobs.

Continents drift in the time it takes to punish or remove drunken judges and elected Sheriffs that take 3-hour lunches and run the police department via cell-phone from the golf course but this happened like a bolt of lightning. Kinda makes you wonder.

[Brown Deer]

Kentucky Revised Statutes
KRS Chapter 402

402.005 Definition of marriage.

As used and recognized in the law of the Commonwealth, "marriage" refers only to the civil status, condition, or relation of one (1) man and one (1) woman united in law for life, for the discharge to each other and the community of the duties legally incumbent upon those whose association is founded on the distinction of sex.

402.045 Same-sex marriage in another jurisdiction void and unenforceable.

402.240 County judge/executive to issue license in absence of clerk.

In the absence of the county clerk, or during a vacancy in the office, the county judge/executive may issue the license and, in so doing, he shall perform the duties and incur all the responsibilities of the clerk. The county judge/executive shall return a memorandum thereof to the clerk, and the memorandum shall be recorded as if the license had been issued by the clerk.

402.990 Penalties.

(3) Any authorized person who knowingly solemnizes a marriage prohibited by this chapter shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

(6) Any clerk who knowingly issues a marriage license to any persons prohibited by this chapter from marrying shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor and removed from office by the judgment of the court in which he is convicted.

(7) Any clerk who knowingly issues a marriage license in violation of his duty under this chapter shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

(8) If any deputy clerk or any person other than a county clerk knowingly issues a marriage license in violation of this chapter, but not for a prohibited marriage, he shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor, and if he knowingly issues a license for a marriage prohibited by this chapter, he shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

[xzins]

Thank you so much, Brown Deer.

Nor does chapter 402 have a severability clause.