[deport]

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When she returned to work last week, she confiscated the marriage licenses and replaced them.
The new licenses say they were issued not under the authority of the county clerk, but
“pursuant to federal court order.” Davis said this accommodation preserves her conscience
while also granting licenses to same-sex couples.

But on Monday, lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union wrote that the validity of
the altered licenses is “questionable at best,” and that the new licenses bring “humiliation
and stigma” to the gay couples who receive them. They asked U.S. District Judge David Bunning to
order Davis’ office to reissue the licenses. If Davis interferes, the lawyers say Bunning
should place her office in a receivership for the purposes of issuing marriage licenses.

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[tanknetter]

and that the new licenses bring “humiliation and stigma” to the gay couples who receive them.

My understanding is that the modified licenses are being used for ALL couples who seek them, homosexual and/or heterosexual.

So the "humiliation and stigma" argument doesn't fly, because there's no separate but equal like scenario. The homosexual couples aren't getting different licenses.

They DO have a valid point about the licenses themselves being in violation of KY state law. Which is what this was all about to begin with. And the Federal Judge even pointed that out and told them that the risk of accepting an invalid license was theirs.

This is starting to become amusing, in that the ACLU and the couples are completely getting played and outmaneuvered by what they almost certainly see as a cretin/redneck local official backed by a cretin/redneck legal defense organization. Heck, we were talking about the modified licenses being invalid, here on FR, within minutes of the judge's ruling. We're now a couple weeks down the road and the ACLU/couple are only now crying "Wait, no fair!"

[DiogenesLamp]

But on Monday, lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union wrote that the validity of the altered licenses is “questionable at best,” and that the new licenses bring “humiliation and stigma” to the gay couples who receive them.

It needs to bring stigma on them because they are sick perverts the sort of which we used to lock up in Insane Asylums.

"Stigma" for sick perverts is what a Normal society does.