"Kentucky clerk's office ends ban on same-sex marriage licenses"
This is not just bad reporting it is lazy and dangerous reporting.
By Steve Bittenbender
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MOREHEAD, Ky. (Reuters) - Deputies of a county clerk in rural Kentucky issued marriage licenses to four gay couples on Friday after she defied a U.S. district judge's orders for months because as a Christian she opposes same-sex unions.
See people still believe that there is an option to county clerks, and bad if not outright manipulative reporting reinforce that notion.
From wiki-
Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. _ (2015), is a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held in a 5–4 decision that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples by both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.[2][3]
In November 2014, following a lengthy series of appeals court rulings from the Fourth, Seventh, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits that state-level bans on same-sex marriage were unconstitutional, the Sixth Circuit ruled that it was bound by Baker v. Nelson and found them constitutional, creating a split between circuits and leading to an almost inevitable Supreme Court review.
Decided on June 26, 2015, Obergefell overturned Baker and requires all states to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples and to recognize same-sex marriages validly performed in other jurisdictions.
Some government workers in Kentucky just did not take it upon themselves to end their own personal ban on marriage licenses to same-sex couples. The clerk's office did not have a choice in the matter. The United States Supreme Court ruled clearly, unilaterally ending the ban anywhere in our country, period.