Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. The ...
MOREHEAD, Ky. -- A jailed Kentucky clerk asserted that marriage licenses issued without her authority Friday to gay couples in Rowan County are void and "not worth the paper they are written on" ...
In 2018, Kentucky was a vanguard in the fight to end child marriages, becoming one of the first states to enact legislation limiting marriages for those under 18. But in the eight years since the law ...
A former county clerk in Kentucky who was briefly jailed for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses on religious grounds is asking the Supreme Court to consider her appeal, arguing in part that ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Four Kentucky couples are suing a clerk who is refusing to issue gay-marriage licenses — or any marriage licenses at all — following the U.S. Supreme Court decision that ...
A government shutdown will halt the issuance of marriage licenses and ceremonies in Washington, D.C. The D.C. courts are federally funded and do not consider issuing marriage licenses an essential ...
ASHLAND, KY -- A federal judge ordered a defiant county clerk to jail for contempt Thursday after she insisted that it would violate her conscience to follow court orders to issue marriage licenses to ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- The Kentucky clerk who went to jail in 2015 for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples lost her bid for a second term on Tuesday. Kim Davis, the Republican ...
UNDER A NEW NAME. A FORMER COUNTY CLERK FROM EASTERN KENTUCKY IS TAKING HER PUSH AGAINST SAME SEX MARRIAGE TO THE U.S. SUPREME COURT. THE JUSTICES ARE NOW CONSIDERING HEARING KIM DAVIS’S REQUEST TO ...
Without any sign of dissent, the Supreme Court on Monday evening passed up its first chance to act decisively on the rising religious freedom protest against same-sex marriage. In a one-sentence order ...