Now Kentucky Clerk’s Son Won’t Issue Gay Marriage Licenses
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Nathan Davis, deputy clerk of Rowan County, Ky., tells David Moore, center, and David Ermold, left, that he won’t issue them a marriage license. (Photo by John Flavell/Lexington Herald-Leader/TNS/ Newscom)
Kim Davis’s son is also a clerk who now refuses to issue marriage licenses to gays.
Five of six deputy clerks in Rowan County, Kentucky, agreed Thursday to abide court orders and issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
The clerks told U.S. District Court Judge David Bunning at the federal courthouse in Ashland that they would issue the licenses after the judge ordered their boss, Rowan County clerk Kim Davis, to be jailed on contempt charges for defying multiple court orders.
Bunning told the six deputy clerks they could either issue marriage licenses or join Davis in jail.
The one deputy who refuse to comply was Davis’ 21-year-old son, Nathan. The judge said he wouldn’t hold Nathan in contempt.
Rowan County Attorney Cecil Watkins said in a Wednesday interview that the deputy clerks were too afraid to disagree with Davis to issue same-sex marriage licenses.
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