Rowan County, Kentucky Clerk, Kim Davis, 48 has been jailed for her refusal to issue marriage licenses for gay couples in the county. Kim was jailed on Thursday afternoon by a US District Judge, David Bunning in Kentucky. Bunnign said Kim is free to go home when she is ready to issue the licenses to gay couples, a move she disagrees to take, and had said she won't accept a compromise that would let her out of jail. Attorneys for the plaintiffs proposed that she would go home if she won't interfere with her deputies giving out the licenses, but she also refused.
Kim, a Christian of Apostolic faith, though divorced thrice, was taken out of the courtroom led by the US Marshall and told the judge "Thank You". Since Kim had gone to Jail, 5 out of her six deputies had issued out marriage licenses to gay couples. The only one of the deputies who refused to give out the license is Kim's son, Nathan, but won't be facing any fine or jail time since the other deputies are already issuing the licenses.
Kim cannot be fired because she was an elected official, but she can resign. But Kim had also refused to tender her resignation. Judge Bunning said that the oath the county clerk had taken as a public servant supersedes any of her religious beliefs about gay marriages.
Jonathan Beebe-Franqui, left, and his husband Dwayne D. Beebe-Franqui embraced as they waited for Davies to arrive at the court but it is believed she slipped in via a back entrance
After the sentencing of Kim, Gay activist who had stayed in front of the courthouse in Ashland was happy with the news, and kept chanting, "Love Won", while Kim supporters broke into an impromptu rendition of "Amazing grace"