All posts tagged "Same Sex Marriage"

Former Rowan County, Kentucky clerk Kim Davis, the pentecostal evangelical Christian who made international headlines in 2015, has now been ordered to pay a total of more than $360,000 after refusing to issue a marriage license to a local same-sex couple that year, ignoring the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in support of marriage equality.

Davis, who once told supporters she is a “soldier for Christ,” was ordered by U.S. District Judge David L. Bunning on Tuesday to pay attorneys of the couple $260,104 in fees and expenses, the Lexington Herald-Leader reports. She previously was ordered by a jury to pay the couple, David Ermold and David Moore, a total of $100,000 in damages. In March of 2022 a federal judge found Davis had violated the couple’s constitutional rights.

While the elected county clerk, Davis was jailed for several days after defying a court order to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Citing her personal religious beliefs, she had claimed she issued marriage licenses under “God’s authority,” and refused....

If you're a millennial who's fed up with your parents reiterating your age while pressuring you to get married, now you can look forward to scientific research to reinforce their fear mongering.

As I reveled in the tears of conservatives responding to the Supreme Court's ruling on same sex marriage, I came across one particular Republican Representative clown who epitomizes the laughable hypocrisy of the right-wing.

The Hawaiian state legislature is slated to hold a special session this week discussing whether to make same sex marriage legal in the state again. According to Reuters, Gov. Neil Abercrombie (D) has called for the lawmakers to meet on Monday to begin the session.