Why Can’t the Kentucky Clerk Get Bail?
(Worthy News) – Rowan County, Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis has been jailed without bail since Thursday for refusing to allow her office to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
Her attorney, Matthew Staver, says that even some people accused of murder are allowed to be free on bail while their trail is pending.
“This woman who hasn’t done any crime at all,” Staver told Newsmax on Sunday. “She’s being held without bail for an indefinite period of time. In fact, one of the U.S. marshals when they were directed by the judge to take her into custody told her he had never arrested somebody who had not committed a crime.”
GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee told ABC’s “This Week” Sunday that there is a double standard for liberals and conservatives when it comes to violating same-sex marriage laws. He pointed to former San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome and President Barack Obama’s former Attorney General Eric Holder for allowing same-sex marriage when it was illegal, yet suffering no consequences. [ Source ]
Rowan County Issues Marriage Licenses
Mat Staver, one of Davis’ attorneys, said the marriage licenses issued Friday are “not worth the paper they are written on” because Davis refused to authorize them. But Rowan County Attorney Cecil Watkins says the licenses are valid. Bunning said he did not know if the licenses were valid but ordered them issued anyway.
Bunning indicated Davis will be in jail at least a week. She could stay longer if she continues to not obey the judge’s order. Bunning had offered to release Davis from jail if she promised not to interfere with her deputy clerks as they issued the licenses. But Davis refused.
Staver called the contempt hearing “a charade” saying that Bunning had his mind made up before the hearing began. [ Source ]