U.S. District Judge David Bunning temporarily stayed his order requiring Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis of Kentucky to immediately begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples as she appeals his decision to the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Last week Judge Bunning had ordered to issue licenses to two gay couples without further delay.
This means that Davis will continue to refuse to issue marriage licenses to anyone in Rowan County. ABC News reported Davis as saying, “This is not something I decided because of this decision that came down,” Davis testified in federal court last month. “It was thought-out and, you know, I sought God on it.”
“The U.S. Supreme Court has firmly established that every person has a fundamental right to marry the person they love,” said JoDee Winterhof, HRC vice president for Policy and Political Affairs. “No public employee should have the right to deny or delay that right to loving, committed same-sex couples who have already waited far too long for marriage equality. We urge the Sixth Circuit to rule swiftly and unequivocally that gay and lesbian couples must be treated equally under our laws.”
