"Did God Tell You to Treat Us Like This?"

By SHOAHUSA
NOVANEWS

Protests Grow over Clerk’s Denial of Same-Sex Marriages

GUESTS

Chris Hartman, director of the Fairness Campaign, Kentucky’s statewide LGBTadvocacy group, based in Louisville. The organization has worked successfully to get fairness laws passed across the state.
David Moore, graphic designer from Morehead, Kentucky. He and his partner, David Ermold, were denied a marriage license on three occasions by Kim Davis and staffers in her office. The video of their confrontation with Davis went viral, with more than 1.8 million hits.
Joe Dunman, attorney with Clay Daniel Walton & Adams in Louisville, Kentucky. He represented the plaintiffs and petitioners in the Kentucky marriage equality cases ofBourke v. Beshear and Love v. Beshear, which were consolidated as Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court case that effectively made marriage equality the law of the land.
In Kentucky, the county clerk who has defied the Supreme Court and refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples is set to appear before a federal judge today to make her case for why she shouldn’t be held in contempt of court. Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis stopped issuing all marriage licenses rather than comply with the Supreme Court ruling in June that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. On Monday, the Supreme Court denied Davis’ appeal that the court grant her “asylum for her conscience.”
The next day, same-sex couples went to Davis’ office. In a video that went viral, David Moore confronted Davis about her decision not to issue same-sex marriage licenses. We speak with Moore about how he and his partner, David Ermold, have been denied a marriage license on three occasions by Kim Davis and staffers in her office. We’re also joined by Chris Hartman, director of the Fairness Campaign, Kentucky’s statewideLGBT advocacy group, and Joe Dunman, an attorney who represented the plaintiffs and petitioners in several Kentucky marriage cases which were consolidated into the Supreme Court case that effectively made marriage equality the law of the land.

TRANSCRIPT

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NERMEEN SHAIKH: In Kentucky, the county clerk who has defied the Supreme Court and refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples is set to appear before a federal judge in just a few hours to make her case for why she shouldn’t be held in contempt of court. Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis stopped issuing all marriage licenses rather than comply with the Supreme Court ruling in June that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. On Monday, the Supreme Court denied Davis’s appeal that the court grant her asylum for her conscience. The next day, same-sex couples confronted Davis at her office. David Moore asked her why she wasn’t issuing licenses.

DAVID MOORE: The injunction is the order that you’re supposed to issue marriage licenses.

KIM DAVIS: And we’re not issuing marriage licenses today.

DAVID MOORE: The Supreme Court denied your stay.

KIM DAVIS: We are not issuing marriage licenses today. So I would—

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