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Kim Davis, Prisoner of Conscience: RELEASED!

Judge David Bunning jailed Kim Davis last Thursday after she repeatedly refused to grant any marriage licenses from her office as long as they had to include same-sex couples. Davis cited her religious beliefs in refusing to issue the licenses, even though the Supreme Court imposed same-sex marriage on the country last June 26.

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George Will Compares Kim Davis to Segregationist George Wallace

On “Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace,” Washington Post columnist George Will said Rowan Co., KY clerk Kim Davis, who is being jailed for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses, is much like segregationist governors Orval Faubus and George Wallace, who attempted

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Breaking: Kim Davis Appeals Contempt Order and Jail

Kim Davis’s lawyers just filed an emergency appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, challenging U.S. District Judge David Bunning’s holding Davis in contempt of court, and ordering her taken into immediate federal custody by federal

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Kim Davis, Prisoner of Conscience: Day Four

The fourth day dawned on the incarceration of Rowan Country Clerk Democrat Kim Davis who has been jailed by Federal Judge David Bunning for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

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Kim Davis, Prisoner of Conscience: Day Three

Kentucky County Clerk Kim Davis is enduring her third day in jail Saturday after sleeping soundly and in good conscience, according to her attorney Matthew Staver of the public interest law firm Liberty Counsel.

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#StandWithKim Davis

As of Friday morning, Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis sits in jail for her refusal to hand out state licenses for same-sex marriages. She cited her First Amendment religious liberty in her defense. She was arrested after being held in

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County Clerk To Do Time for Marriage

A federal judge ordered county court clerk Kim Davis to jail for contempt Thursday for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses on the grounds that to do so violated her religious beliefs.

Carlos McKnight holds up a flag in support of gay marriage outside of the Supreme Court in Washington, June 26, 2015.

Supreme Court Denies Relief to Christian County Clerk—For Now

The Supreme Court is denying a Kentucky county clerk’s application to stay a lower court’s ruling that she must begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. While government officers have religious liberty rights, some question whether the stronger legal argument would be to claim a personal religious liberty right to object to same-sex marriage, but not to claim governmental authority to ban her deputies from issuing those licenses, either.

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First Same-Sex Marriage in Tijuana

Last week, same-sex marriage came to Tijuana, as Baja California’s largest city was the site of the nuptials between designer Luis Vargas, 48, and businessman Michael Bujazán, 71.