GAY MARRIAGE LAWSUIT : KIM DAVIS ASKS COURT TO DISMISS APPEALS .

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Do you remember her , a  Kentucky clerk who spent five days in jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples asked a federal appeals court on Tuesday to dismiss her appeals of a judge’s ruling because of a new state law that will take effect next month.
Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis stopped issuing all marriage licenses after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling effectively legalized gay marriage last year. Two gay couples and two straight couples sued her. A federal judge ordered her to issue the licenses, but she refused and went to jail.

Davis appealed the decision, and a federal appeals court had scheduled arguments in the case next month. But in April, the state legislature approved a new law removing the county clerks’ names and authorizations from state marriage licenses. Davis said the law accommodates her religious beliefs and makes her appeals unnecessary.

 

Kimberly Jean Bailey Davis (born September 17, 1965) is the country clerk  for  Rowan County , Kentucky , who gained international attention in August 2015 when she defied a U.S. federal court order to issue marriage licenses to same -sex couples, following the June 26, 2015, U.S. Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges. Kim Davis reacted to the decision by denying marriage licenses to all couples, saying she was acting "under God's authority Her defiance led to her jail sentence, while both supporters and detractors hotly debated her stance in the national media. Marriage licenses in Rowan County are now being issued to all citizens as required by law.

Davis was born in Jackson , Kentucky. By 1991, Davis was serving as chief deputy clerk of Rowan County, reporting to her mother, the Rowan County clerk. Davis' first three marriages ended in divorce in 1994, 2006, and 2008; she then remarried her second husband in 2009. She became an Apostolic  Christian in 2011. A court found her salary to be higher than expected and therefore cut her wages in 2012. Despite complaints of  nepotism. Davis was elected court clerk in 2014 and promised to follow the statutes of the office. Additional information from Wikipedia.