After the Supreme Court refused to allow Kentucky's Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis to deny marriage licenses to any couple, gay or straight, while she appeals against an order requiring her to, the temporary district court stay expired on midnight, September 1.
It's now about 7 - 8 a.m. in Kentucky, and she just received a request for a marriage license from a same-sex couple.
The clerk arrived at her office Tuesday morning just after 7 a.m., and a couple attempted to obtain a marriage license shortly after 8 a.m.
An employee in the county clerk’s officer denied a marriage license to the same-sex couple, who had previously attempted to obtain one three times.
The employee said Davis was unavailable to meet with the couples because she was “doing reports.”
However, the clerk eventually emerged and said she would not issue the licenses to same-sex couples, and they asked under whose authority she could make that decision.
“Under God’s authority,” Davis said. “I’ve asked you all to leave, you’re interrupting my business.”
She should be immediately held in contempt, prosecuted for this misdemeanor of a public official not doing her job, and after that, sent straight to prison.