LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — The former Rowan County, Kentucky, clerk ordered to pay a gay couple after denying them a marriage license has filed an appeal.
In January, a jury awarded the couple $100,000 after Kim Davis denied them their marriage license in 2015.
Davis argued granting the marriage license violated her religious belief that marriage should be between a man and woman. Her lawyers also said the 2015 Supreme Court decision to legalize gay marriage should be overruled.
Davis is being represented by the Liberty Counsel, which bills itself as taking on cases that involve religious liberties.
The former clerk was briefly jailed in 2015 over her refusal to issue the marriage license. Her staff ultimately issued the marriage license to the couple, but removed Davis' name from the license.Â
Kentucky's state legislature later enacted a law removing the names of county clerks from state marriage licenses.Â
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