Republican Matt Bevin issues executive order to protect ‘sincerely held devout beliefs’ of officials like Kim Davis after same-sex marriage license controversyRepublican Kentucky governor Matt Bevin ordered the state to prepare new marriage licenses that accomplish not include the names of county clerks,in an attempt to protect the devout beliefs of clerk Kim Davis and other local elected officials.
Bevin said he directed the Kentucky department of libraries and archives to issue the revised marriage license forms to all county clerks. The executive order comes after Davis, the Rowan County clerk, or spent five days in jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Davis said she could not issue the licenses because they had her name on them.
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Source: theguardian.com