Kim Davis, the evangelical Christian known for forcing her homophobic religious beliefs on gay couples seeking marriage licenses, has been ordered to pay $260,000 in legal fees, according to The Guardian.
Davis, who has been married four times, must also pay $100,000 in damages for her refusal to provide a marriage certificate to the suing couple. — Read the rest
Remember Kim Davis, the woman who believes in the sanctity of heterosexual marriage so much that she has been married four times to three husbands? The woman who sanctimoniously refused to fulfill her duties as county clerk for Rowan County, Kentucky, by defying a U.S. — Read the rest
[UPDATE 1/30/2019: The headline and first paragraph of the Lexington Herald Leader say that lawyers for Governor Matt Bevin want Kim Davis to pay the state's legal bills, but a quote from one of the lawyers later in the story makes it clear they want the office of the country clerk where Davis used to work to pay the bill, not Davis personally.] — Read the rest
Made famous by her refusal to issue marriage licenses to Kentuckians she disapproved of, evangelical darling Kim Davis has lost her bid for re-election.
Via Kentucky.com:
— Read the restKim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk made famous by her refusal to sign marriage licenses for gay couples, lost Tuesday in her reelection bid for the Rowan County clerkship.
The Kentucky county court clark who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples sent email on the matter using her work address, and the AP gained access to it under that state's freedom of information act.
It's "exactly what you would imagine them to be", in a battle-for-eternity kind of way, writes Mark Joseph Stern. — Read the rest
Kim Davis isn't doing her job again. Michael from Muckrock writes, "This time, she's falling short on responding to public records requests, particularly one relating to her controversial visit with Pope Francis."
Make up artist Jan Bonito made himself look like Kim Davis. — Read the rest
Kim Davis, the bigot who won't issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, said she had a 15-minute audience with the Pope, who told her to stay strong.
Where is your Cool Pope now, America? His PR game is undoubtedly on fleek, but he's still beholden to the same homophobic crap we know and love from the Catholic Church, the world's most powerful supporter of impunity for priestly pedophiles. — Read the rest
Survivor guitarist and “Eye of the Tiger” co-writer Frankie Sullivan says nobody in their camp granted permission for their 1982 hit song to be featured at a rally for Kim Davis without their permission.
Gay-hatin' Lord-fearin' American Martyr Kim Davis and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee celebrate Davis' release from jail with an overused '80s sports anthem.
A company in Radcliff, Kentucky is selling T-shirts to support Kim Davis, the woman who is abusing her government position to force her religious beliefs on other people.
The design is so hideous that the message is as incomprehensible as Mike Huckabee and Ted Cruz's defense of Davis' actions. — Read the rest
[[Imagineer Chris Merritt (previously) was the protege of the Disney legend Marc Davis, the character designer whose work defined the look of such classic attractions as Pirates of the Caribbean and the Haunted Mansion. Merritt has written seminal books on southern California's themed attractions, including Knott's Berry Farm and Pacific Ocean Park. — Read the rest
Magdalena Cerdá and Garen Wintemute are epidemiological researchers with US Davis's Violence Prevention Research Program; when they witnessed the Trump administration's mass-deletion of publicly funded EPA research, they feared gun violence stats would be next.
A court has issued a harsh (if eminently Republican) response to the problem posed by Kim Davis.
Kim Davis, a government clerk in Kentucky, acquired fame among conservatives for refusing to issue a marriage certificate to a gay couple. Four-times-married Davis objects to gay marriage on religious grounds, but would not vacate the job that obliged her to administer the paperwork for them. — Read the rest
Former Trump strategist Stephen K. Bannon and GOP moneyman Elliot Broidy join a list of Trump pardon grantees that includes Paul Manafort and Roger Stone.
Here is the full list from the White House, which is reproduced below in full. — Read the rest
The new Supreme Court term — the first without Justice Ruth Bader-Ginsburg — began on Monday, October 5. And one of the first things they did was refuse to hear an appeal from the infamously homophobic former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis. — Read the rest
Kim Davis, the county clerk who was briefly jailed for contempt of court and ultimately lost her job for refusing to issue marriage licences to same-sex couples, will not get her case heard in the land's highest court. Though the Supreme Court turned her away, two of its justices—Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito—offered a letter attacking the court's decision in Obergefell that made gay marriage the law of the land. — Read the rest
Rowan County county clerk Kim Davis famously refused to issue licenses to gay couples after same-sex marriage was legalized in Kentucky. She was briefly jailed for contempt of court after refusing a judge's order to do her job or quit it, making her a hero to conservatives. — Read the rest
