Posted on 08/26/2015 8:16:04 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
FRANKFORT — The Kentucky County Clerks Association will propose removing clerks’ names from the document in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s legalization of same-sex marriage.
Overturning the state’s ban on same-sex marriage has prompted Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis and two others to deny licenses to all couples, drawing a federal lawsuit against Davis as well as calls to change the licensing process.
Leslie County Clerk James Lewis, chairman of the association’s elections committee, told reporters Tuesday that his group is drafting “a simple solution” to the matter.
“You would have the county and the county seat listed as where the license was issued, but no name as to whom actually issued it,” he said after a Task Force on Elections, Constitutional Amendments and Intergovernmental Affairs meeting. “Once it comes back for recording, then their name and signature definitely goes on the recording statement.”
KCCA has met with the state Department for Libraries and Archives on the proposed change and planned to review the form with the department on Wednesday, he said.
The association’s proposal is the fourth publicized in Kentucky since the Supreme Court’s June ruling.
Legislation pre-filed by House Minority Caucus Chair Stan Lee and two other Republicans would add exemptions for marriage licensing and solemnization under the state’s religious-liberty law, and GOP gubernatorial nominee Matt Bevin has said licenses should be available online and notarized by anyone authorized to solemnize marriages.
Democratic Attorney General Jack Conway, his party’s gubernatorial nominee, has said he would be willing to consider legislation that upholds the high court’s ruling and gives county clerks some flexibility in issuing marriage licenses.
Freshman Rep. David Hale, R-Wellington, has also pre-filed legislation transferring marriage licensing from county clerks to the state registrar of vital statistics.
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Next the state will offer to erase their conscience.
The Fascists would have thought of that already, except the notion of conscience is foreign to them.
Just look at all the he** this SC ruling has caused - all to placate 1-3% of the population. Disgusting!
GOP gubernatorial nominee Matt Bevin has said licenses should be available online and notarized by anyone authorized to solemnize marriages. Democratic Attorney General Jack Conway, his party's gubernatorial nominee, has said he would be willing to consider legislation that upholds the high court's ruling and gives county clerks some flexibility in issuing marriage licenses.
I sure wouldn’t want my name on the damned thing.
Sorry but this is still going against God’s law. It’s like commiting a crime with gloves on. You didn’t leave any evidence but you still did the crime and God knows.
Printz V US clearly established that the federal government cannot draft or compel states or counties to carry out federal dictates. If the federal government wants gays to marry, then it is the federal government that must supply the federal bureaucrats to carry out the edicts.
Earlier rulings also stated that states, counties, sheriffs and Indian reservations are all sovereigns.
If the County Clerk is a Quaker, may he refuse to issue gun licenses?
If the County Clerk is an Orthodox Jew, may he refuse to issue a business license to a restaurant that serves pork?
The definitions of Guns and pork haven’t been bastardized by some court.
That's not the issue. The issue is whether a County Clerk may refuse to perform his/her duty because of their religious beliefs.
States were not required to abide by the Second Amendment until the Supreme Court's 5-4 decision in McDonald v. Chicago in 2010.
Yes they were.
Just because nobody was enforcing the Constitution doesn’t alleviate the requirement.
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