It's Trash Time

From the BBC:
"Kim Davis case: Kentucky clerk faces new legal challenge"'

Four couples have asked a US judge to order Kentucky clerk Kim Davis to reissue their marriage licences after she altered them to remove her name. Ms Davis, an elected official, opposes gay marriage and has said that her Christian faith should exempt her from signing those licences. She was jailed after she repeatedly refused to issue licences to gay couples, defying court orders.  The US Supreme Court declared gay marriage legal in June. Ms Davis, a Democrat who serves Rowan County, a rural area in eastern Kentucky, was released under the condition that she would not interfere as her deputy clerks issued marriage licences. However, once she returned to work Ms Davis removed her name from the licences and replaced it with the phrase "pursuant to federal court order".

Lawyers for the couples - two straight and two gay - questioned whether the altered licences are valid and said they "effectively feature a stamp of animus against the LGBT community".  The lawyers wrote that Ms Davis actions signal that: "the government's position is that LGBT couples are second-class citizens unworthy of official recognition and authorization of their marriage licenses but for this court's intervention and order".  The lawyers have suggested that the judge place the clerk's office in receivership so someone else would issue the licences. Ms Davis told ABC News on Tuesday she was prepared to return to jail if the judge ordered to stop altering the licences.  She said the licences are "not valid in God's eyes," but she disagreed with those who have called her homophobic. Because Ms Davis is an elected official, she cannot be fired. She could be impeached by the Kentucky legislature, but the body is not in session.

^ I think it's "funny" that a self-proclaimed martyr to keep marriage pure has been married and divorced so many times it's hard to know who she is currently married to. Come on KY just remove her from office already so the South stops looking like a piece of white trash to the rest of the country and the world. ^

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34331759