She’s back — but what happens now?
That is the question on the minds off all Rowan County watchers. There, in small-town Kentucky, clerk Kim Davis went to jail earlier this month rather than issue marriage licenses in the wake of the Supreme Court’s legalization of same-sex marriage. Davis, an Apostolic Christian, said her faith prevented her from blessing such unions, so she refused to issue any licenses despite a court order. This landed her in jail for contempt of court.
Last week, after five days behind bars, Davis triumphantly emerged arm-in-arm with Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee to the strains of “Eye of the Tiger” — and, though clerks have been issuing licenses in her absence — with a bit of ambiguity about what would happen when she returned to her job.