Court orders anti-gay clerk Kim Davis to pay $10K to same-sex couple she refused to marry

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A court has ordered former Rowan County, Kentucky clerk Kim Davis to pay $10,000 to a gay same-sex couple because she refused to issue a marriage license to them. Her lawyers plan to appeal the decision.

Davis, a conservative Christian who has been married four times, refused to provide marriage licenses to gay couples in 2015 after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage. Davis told the couple in question that she was acting “under God’s authority” when she refused to issue the license because she believes marriage is only between a man and a woman.

A jury in Ashland, Kentucky awarded David Ermold and David Moore $50,000 each on Wednesday, ABC News reported. Davis claimed she had qualified immunity, a legal protection that shields government officials from personal liability for violating someone’s rights.

However, in 2022, U.S. District Judge David Bunning ruled that Davis “cannot use her own constitutional rights [to religious freedom] as a shield to violate the constitutional rights of others while performing her duties as an elected official.”

Davis or someone in her office denied marriage licenses multiple times…

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