Judge orders Kim Davis to pay $260K in attorney fees to gay couple
dallasvoice.comKim Davis, the former county clerk in Rowan County, Ken., grabbed headlines and became the darling of the right wing back in the summer of 2015 when she refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples requesting them following the U.S.
Supreme Court’s marriage equality ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges. She said that issuing the licenses to same-sex couples was in conflict with her religious belief that marriage can only be between a man and a woman.
Davis — who has been married four times to three men and has four children (two with her first husband and twins with her second husband although they were conceived while she was still married to her first husband) — was so adamant about defending the sanctity of marriage against same-sex couples that she was willing to spend five days in jail on contempt of court charges for refusing to issue the licenses.
Today (Tuesday, Jan. 2) Davis — who lost her bid for re-election in 2018 — was back in the headlines again after federal District Judge David L.
