Lawyers for a county clerk in Kentucky who refuses to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples appealed a federal judge’s order that she do so, asking that the clerk not have to comply meanwhile.
Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis so far has not obeyed the order of U.S. District Judge David Bunning that she resume issuing all marriage licenses at the courthouse, including those for same-sex couples.
“Judge Bunning’s decision equated Kim’s free exercise of religion to going to church,” Mat Staver, one of her lawyers, said in a prepared statement. “This is absurd. Christianity is not a robe you take off when you leave a sanctuary.”
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