KRS 402.080 - "No marriage shall be solemnized without a license therefor. The license shall be issued by the clerk of the county in which the female resides at the time, unless the female is eighteen (18) years of age or over or a widow, and the license is issued on her application in person or by writing signed by her, in which case it may be issued by any county clerk."
The law doesn't exclude same-sex marriage.
-——county in which the female resides-—
those words would seem to prevent issuance to queers
It doesn't exclude marriage to dogs or horses either, if you want to be a lying f***ing @$$ about it.
Reading something into the law that it wasn't deliberately intended to address is just as much a bastardization of it as is taking something out of it.
How about this? All laws that have never been comprehended to apply to deviation from the norm, will not apply to deviations from the norm.
Kentucky Revised Statutes
402.020 Other prohibited marriages.
(1) Marriage is prohibited and void:
(a) With a person who has been adjudged mentally disabled by a court of competent jurisdiction;
(b) Where there is a husband or wife living, from whom the person marrying has not been divorced;
(c) When not solemnized or contracted in the presence of an authorized person or society;
(d) Between members of the same sex;
(e) Between more than two (2) persons;
...etc.
Cordially,
The adjacent law that explicitly excludes sodomite unions does exclude it.
As does the explicit wording “the female”, which is both singular and gender-specific.