ASHLAND, Ky. (WKYT) - A federal judge has ruled that former Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis violated the constitutional rights of two same-sex couples when she denied them marriage licenses during the summer of 2015.
In an order published Friday afternoon, United States District Judge David L. Bunning of the Eastern District of Kentucky granted summary judgment in a civil lawsuit that the two couples, David Ermold and David Moore, and James Yates and Will Smith, filed against Davis.
That settles - without a trial - the question of whether Davis violated their constitutional rights, but no decision has been made yet on whether Davis will be on the hook for the likely hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees accrued over the six-and-a-half years of litigation.
I’m fine with her being financially ruined for her actions in support of her beliefs.
Fun fact: this judge is Jim Bunning’s kid. Bunning was a US Senator representing Kentucky and before that he played major league baseball including pitching the seventh perfect game in MLB history on June 21, 1964.
And if this had been the primary type of response I got back then, I would not have gotten so upset. I am not against people telling me I made an incorrect inference or am wrong about facts. The problem was jumping straight to gratuitous abuse.
I also thank you for spending a few seconds to think where I might have gone wrong, rather than just assuming I had started having delusional thoughts or was lying. And I thank posters like @xenophon41 and @dropzone for figuring out that there is a line between getting angry and piling on abuse. And while I won’t go up and mention them all, I thank everyone who gave me advice to abandon the thread—even if I didn’t need it as I had already left. (I had learned by then to recognize the hate machine and leave. I only replied in the first place because I had been blindsided by the reaction. I always left when it became clear I was being used as the whipping boy.)
I know best practice would just be to let sleeping dogs lie, but, after scrolling through that mess, I felt the need to at least thank some people, and to appreciate how far this board has come. This is why I assume claims that the Pit is too horrible are based on how it used to be.
As for Davis, I hope she is put on the hook and has to pay for this. The people she harmed didn’t deserve to have to fight so hard. I am, however, disappointed with how long it has taken (though not surprised).
And, with this Court, I am not unconcerned that the decision she was “protesting” might not be overturned, especially if (as expected) the right to abortion gets overturned. I mean, look at this “don’t say gay” bill nonsense.
I’m not uncertain I’m parsing your triple-negative sentence incorrectly, but I think this sentence says the opposite of what I suspect you really mean it to say.
That’s the third song in the GQP’s repertoire, “The Pull-The-Ladder-Up-After-You Polka,” right after the “F**k You, I Got Mine” rag and the “Do As I Say, Not As I Do” tango.
Well…they are not giving money to gay people. They are giving money to a person who is opposed to gay people that is being forced to give money to gay people. See the difference?
Close…They are giving money to an upstanding Christian woman who is being persecuted by the woke establishment, just for following Jesus’ commandment to hate the gays.
So in addition to the 100,000 she was ordered to pay to the couple,
U.S. District Judge David L. Bunning of the Eastern District of Kentucky ruled that Davis must pay $260.084.70 in fees and expenses to attorneys who represented a same-sex couple
