Video Shows Kentucky Clerk Denying Same-Sex Marriage License Once Again

US District Judge David Bunning has ordered a county clerk to appear before his court on Thursday to explain why she should not be fined or jailed for contempt for refusing to issue marriage licenses to two gay couples Tuesday morning despite an US Supreme Court ruling against her earlier this week.

Local news video shot this morning shows Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis speaking to one of the couples inside the county courthouse, explaining that her office would not be issuing a wedding license, despite Monday's ruling by the US court that blocked the clerk's request to continue denying gay applicants because of her religious beliefs.

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Davis said she was still barring couples from obtaining the documents "under God's authority." Local media outlets were at the Rowan County Courthouse on Tuesday as the couples sought out licenses, with one of the individuals saying he planned to stay in the office until he obtained it. Authorities eventually showed up and forced out hundreds who had gathered inside.

One of the couples, James Yates and Will Smith Jr., were trying for the fifth time to get a license, according to the Associated Press. Additionally, the AP reported that Davis' husband Joe Davis said his wife had been the subject of death threats and that she was "standing for God."

Davis started refusing to hand out the licenses after the US Supreme Court ruling in June legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide, a move that also went against Kentucky's Democratic Governor Steve Beshear's order for the state's clerks to issue licenses to all couples.

In August, US District Judge Bunning blocked her request for a delay in issuing marriage licenses to gay couples due to her Christian beliefs, but she continued to deny them as she sought an appeal in the Sixth US Circuit Court. Davis is represented by attorney Mathew Staver of the Christian legal organization Liberty Counsel.

The county clerk currently has eight people seeking lawsuits against her for the policy, which also includes the denial of licenses to straight couples.

More than 50 Kentucky clerks petitioned the governor's office in August to call a special session of the state legislature to address the matter of religious beliefs and same-sex marriage licenses. Beshear has said he has no intention of doing so, preferring that the issue be taken up when the legislature convenes as scheduled in January. Meanwhile, he insists that clerks follow the law.

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While most officials around the country are administering wedding licenses to gay couples, regardless of their beliefs, Kentucky isn't the only state where officials have objected to issuing same-sex marriage licenses. In Alabama, couples were forced to search for judges in different parts of the state that were willing to provide wedding licenses after local probate judges stopped issuing them. Probate judges in two Alabama counties declared that they would stop issuing marriage licenses altogether after the Supreme Court ruling, again citing Christian beliefs.

Federal Judge Ginny Granade, who struck down Alabama's ban on same-sex marriage in January, affirmed that the law holds that probate judges who hand out marriage licenses in Alabama have to also issue them to same-sex couples.

Reuters contributed to this report.

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