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A new legal cloud over same-sex marriage in Kentucky?

A new legal cloud over same-sex marriage in Kentucky?

  • September 4, 2015
  • Devon Sharpe
  • Comments Off on A new legal cloud over same-sex marriage in Kentucky?

(SCOTUSBlog) – Five deputy county clerks in Rowan County, Kentucky — the scene of the first major courthouse battle over a conflict between the Supreme Court’s view on same-sex marriage and religious objections to it —  told a federal judge that they will start issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples on Friday morning.  They did so after the judge sent the county clerk herself to jail for contempt of court, and threatened her deputies with the same fate.

But even the judge conceded that those licenses, if issued,  may not be valid, although (More…)