Kim Davis’ Lawyers: No Need to Change Marriage Licenses After Controversy
Pete Williams and Erik Ortiz, Yahoo: Kim Davis’ Lawyers: No Need to Change Marriage Licenses After Controversy
After Davis spent five days in jail last month for contempt of court, she returned to work but said she would play no role in issuing the licenses. She did, however, make several changes to the license forms.
That prompted the couples who originally sued her to ask the judge in late September for an order directing her office to revert back to the original forms.
One of her deputy clerks said she deleted all mention of Rowan County, removed her name, and omitted references to deputy clerks. Only a deputy’s name is on the form — and not his title — with a place for him to initial rather than to use his signature.
Those changes, the couples told the judge, were inconsistent with state rules for marriage licenses, raising potential questions about their validity.
But Davis’ lawyers said Tuesday not to worry.
“The Kentucky governor and Kentucky attorney general both inspected the new licenses and publicly stated that they were valid and will be recognized as valid by the Commonwealth of Kentucky,” the lawyers said.
The hate mongers who have been representing Kim were loudly insisting that the marriage licenses issued without her authorization are invalid, so why the change in tune? After the utter failure of their legal strategy of getting a court to say its ok for Kim to close the door of her office on homosexuals, they have realized that the only way to keep their client out of jail at this point is to argue that all of the changes she has made to marriage licenses are meaningless; otherwise she has violated Judge Bunning’s order not to interfere with the issuance of marriage licenses by her office.