or let someone else perform the wedding. Kim stated that she did not want her name attached to a gay marriage certificate. If that is the issue, then I see no problem finding someone else in the office or building whatever to do it. Perhaps her supervisor so she can continue working and not have her name on that certificate as she said she did not want.
She is the elected clerk. I don’t think she has a supervisor.
Not as easy as that. She *is* the elected county clerk. In accordance with what *was* the law in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, her signature, as duly elected county clerk *must* be on it to be legally valid. That the self-same law also stipulates that the married pair are to be gender-opposites is what complicates things.
SCOTUS, in its infinite wisdom (or lack thereof), struck down Kentucky law, along with about 30 other states in Obergefell v. Hodges. The Kentucky State Legislature has yet to draft new laws, and Ms. Kim has halted *all* marriage certificates, for anybody, in Rowan County, pending the establishment of new law by the legislature, who is tyhe proper authority for doing so, not a court, Federal, or otherwise...
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