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Kim Davis (county clerk)
Kimberly Jean Bailey Davis (born September 17, 1965) is the county clerk for Rowan County, Kentucky. She gained international attention after defying a federal court order requiring that she issue marriage licenses following the U.S. Supreme Court decision in ''Obergefell v. Hodges''. On June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the right to marriage is guaranteed to same-sex couples by the Fourteenth Amendment. Davis began refusing to issue any licenses, either to same-sex, or to opposite-sex couples. Four couples represented by the ACLU filed a lawsuit against Davis, ''Miller v. Davis''. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky ordered Davis to issue licenses as required by law. Her lawyers filed an emergency application with the Supreme Court seeking to put the lower court's order on hold while she pursued an appeal, but the application was denied. Davis continued to defy the court order and refused to issue marriage licenses, saying she was acting "under God's authority". She was subsequently jailed for contempt of court, then released five days later. When she returned to work, she stated that she would not interfere with her deputies, who had begun issuing licenses as directed by the court order.〔〔 Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway said that because the matter was already being handled by the federal court, the appointment of a special prosecutor to pursue charges of official misconduct against her "is not necessary at this time".〔
Attorney and author Roberta Kaplan described Davis as "the clearest example of someone who wants to use a religious liberty argument to discriminate",〔 yet Law professor Eugene Volokh suggested that an employer must try to accommodate religious employees' beliefs, pointing out that Davis only wished to remove her name from same-sex marriage licenses.〔 Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said that Davis' imprisonment was part of the "criminalization of Christianity,"〔 while columnist Jennifer Rubin compared Davis' refusal to follow the direction of the U.S. Supreme Court to Alabama Governor George Wallace's "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door" in 1963.〔〔
Davis, a convert to Oneness Pentecostal Christianity who worships three times a week,〔〔 had been married four times to three different men prior to her conversion.〔〔 Popular culture has satirized Davis; after the same-sex marriage license controversy and after a brief meeting with Pope Francis, she was characterized in a ''Funny or Die'' video parody and on ''Saturday Night Live''.〔〔〔
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