Jury awards $100,000 to Kentucky couple denied marriage license by ex-County Clerk Kim Davis

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Jury awards $100,000 to Kentucky couple denied marriage license by ex-County Clerk Kim Davis

BY DYLAN LOVAN
Updated 7:00 PM EDT, September 13, 2023

A federal jury has awarded $100,000 to a Kentucky couple who sued former county clerk Kim Davis over her refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

Davis, the former Rowan County clerk, drew international attention when she was briefly jailed in 2015 over her refusal, which she based on her belief that marriage should only be between a man and a woman.

A jury in Ashland, Kentucky, awarded David Ermold and David Moore each $50,000 after deliberating on Wednesday, according to lawyers for Davis. A second couple who sued, James Yates and Will Smith, were awarded no damages on Wednesday by U.S. District Judge David Bunning.

Bunning sent Davis to jail for five days in 2015 after holding her in contempt of court. She was parodied on Saturday Night Live and embraced by conservative politicians who traveled to Kentucky to support her.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/kentucky-kim-davis-marriage-license-samesex-53c37a606aa8dab261edb198db0de72c

[Hermit-The-Prog]

1. Someone should pass Bunning's reasoning along to Alito, Gorsuch, et. al. ...

Bunning ruled last year that Davis violated the constitutional rights of the two couples. In the ruling, Bunning reasoned that Davis “cannot use her own constitutional rights as a shield to violate the constitutional rights of others while performing her duties as an elected official.”

[Aristus]

2. I don't think she has that kind of scratch.

They're going to have to evict her from her tarpaper shack down in Squalor Holler.

[keithbvadu2]

3. The sanctity of Holy matrimony for conservative Christians - Kim Davis

The sanctity of Holy matrimony for conservative Christians - Kim Davis

[IA8IT]

4. Born Again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again

[iluvtennis]

5. Wow 😮. n/t

[3Hotdogs]

6. As God has united, let no man

tear ass under.

[BigmanPigman]

8. I see her face and I want to slap it across the room.

Vile hypocrite....like most of her GQP pals. Hypocrisy be thy name.

[crickets]

7. Good! K&R

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. This makes me smile

Link to tweet

You may remember David Ermold and David Moore.

They were the two men who were denied a marriage license in 2015 by Rowan County clerk Kim Davis.

Davis was held in contempt of court in 2015 and sent to jail for five days, and was released only after her staff issued Moore and Ermold their marriage license.

Now after suing Davis for damages, Ermold and Moore have just been awarded $50,000 each by a jury in Ashland, Kentucky.

Without a doubt these two men did not deserve to have to jump through all these additional hoops just to get married, right?