TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Barry Kolar on Aug 13, 2015

A county clerk in Kentucky today continued to turn away gay couples seeking marriage licenses, defying a federal judge's order that said deeply held Christian beliefs don't excuse officials from following the law, Knoxnews reports. In his ruling Wednesday, U.S. District Judge David L. Bunning said that Kim Davis has likely violated the U.S. Constitution's ban on the government establishing a religion by "openly adopting a policy that promotes her own religious convictions at the expenses of others."