Watch a clerk defy a Supreme Court order and still refuse to issue a marriage license to a gay couple
Reuters
On Tuesday morning, as Rowan County clerk Kim Davis' office opened, two couples were denied licenses.
A deputy clerk told April Miller and Karen Roberts, who walked into the office trailed by dozens of television cameras, that no licenses would be issued and refused to make Davis available.
A second couple, David Moore and David Ermold, rejected a fourth time, are demanding to speak with Davis.
Ermold shouted: "Tell her to come out and face the people she's discriminating against."
The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to intervene in the case, leaving Davis no legal grounds to refuse to grant licenses to gay couples. A district judge could now hold her in contempt, which can carry steep fines or jail time.
Davis said she was acting "under God's authority" in refusing to issue marriage licenses. The below video appears to show her talking to a couple denied a license.
Davis comes out to speak to another couple denied license
Posted by Hillary Thornton WKYT on Tuesday, 1 September 2015
Davis stopped issuing licenses the day the US Supreme Court legalized gay marriage. A federal judge ordered her to issue them, and an appeals court upheld that decision. Still, she has turned away couples again and again.
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