Posted on 11/06/2015 12:44:57 PM PST by SeekAndFind
LOUISVILLE (Reuters) - Kentucky Governor-elect Matt Bevin said on Friday that when he takes office in December he will order changes to the state marriage license form to appease clerks who have objected to issuing licenses to same-sex couples.
"One thing I will take care of right away is we will remove the names of the county clerks from the marriage form," Bevin told reporters in the Capitol rotunda.
Bevin, only the second Republican elected governor in Kentucky since 1971, said he would make the change by executive order.
It is unclear what impact his order would have on the case of Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, who was jailed for five days after refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, making Kentucky a focal point in the long-running debate over gay marriage in the United States. Davis met with Bevin the day she was released from jail.
Davis, 50, took steps to remove her name and office from the forms when she was released. She also had repeatedly urged current governor Steve Beshear, a Democrat, to remove clerk names from the form or provide another type of relief so she would not violate her Apostolic Christian beliefs.
Beshear has said he had no authority to relieve county clerks of their statutory duties by executive order and the issue could be addressed by the state legislature, which reconvenes in January.
Attorneys for Davis could not be reached immediately for comment.
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Go Matt BEvins!
The easy fix that could have been done all along.
It ain’t perfect but its a start and it will expose the left again when they screech about it.
Well we could have had this man replacing someone....I forget. Who was it. Oh no matter. We won...
The State House (D-Colonel Sanders led), Attorney General (D-Spawn of the Current Governor), and Sec of State (D-Whore) will do all they can to obstruct and destroy Bevin.
My personal opinion is that the Kim Davis mess is what pushed Bevin over the top. I.e. it’s why he won.
Job one, nice choice!
Bevin should smile for his picture too!
Brilliant - Go Bevin!
Good start!!
This is what a coward does. What he should do is tell the Supreme Court that they have no authority over marriage in the state of Kentucky. Folks, there is no middle ground on this issue and fudging at the edges isn’t going to solve anything.
Governor Bevin should cite the fight over woman’s suffrage back in the late 1800’s as his quide in how to deal with this issue. Women did not have the right to vote, then gained this right in several states over a period of time resulting in Constitutional Amendment number Nineteen.
He should explain that there is a Tenth Amendment and it has not been repealed which reserves all powers NOT listed in the Constitution to the states and one of those issues is marriage.
Start fighting, stop fudging.
He should tell the Supreme Court to, pardon the pun, “Stick It”.
The last GOP Governor of KY, Ernie Fletcher, was this close to getting tossed in the can. These Dixie mafia scumbags need to be put down. Step one is done, step 2, take the State House in 2016 (for the first time ever, I think the dems have had it since civil war), I don’t know what chicanery they pulled to keep the majority last year.
Not good enough. He should void the U.S. Extreme Court decision outright.
Does a state Governor have the authority to nullify a Federal Supreme Court decision? Or is it the legislature’s job?
Does a state Governor have the authority to nullify a Federal Supreme Court decision? Or is it the legislature’s job?
The left screeched and screeched about it. Kentucky saw the full blunt of homo warriors and their lynch mob mentality.
And what did it get them???
“Bevin, only the second Republican elected governor in Kentucky since 1971”
Let the homos keep exposing themselves and trying to tear down the heart of America.
The Supreme Court can only issue an opinion. There is NOTHING in the Constitution that forces anyone else to obey it as if it where “law”. We obey laws in this country, not opinions. The only people who can change the law concerning marriage in the state of Kentucky is the Kentucky State Legislature. Until this happens, whatever the present law in that state says is the law and if same sex marriages are not legal, they are not legal. Bevin can also let his legislature know right up front that any law they pass which allows same-sex marriage will see his veto pen.
Probably all he can do with so many liberals in the KY state House
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