What I have never understood in the Kim Davis controversy is to what law the lower court judge expected Kim Davis to issue same sex marriage licenses?
Until the Kentucky state legislature created a new law in compliance with the SCOTUS’s (baseless) decision, she would have no legal authority to issue marriage certificates (of any kind). Existing Kentucky state marriage law is so intertwined throughout with the concept of marriage being between exactly one man and one woman that that concept is not legally severable. The effect then is that the entire law was struck down by the SCOTUS, leaving Kentucky without any valid marriage law until a compliant replacement is passed by the Kentucky state legislature.
Until the new law is written and passed, how can Kim Davis be held in contempt of court? Did the Kentucky state legislature already do this? None of the articles on Kim Davis that I have read seem to provide an answer to this key question.
So are you saying that unless the law is rewritten then nobody on Kentucky can get married, regardless of sexual orientation?