A federal judge has ordered a defiant county clerk to jail for contempt after she insisted that it would violate her conscience to follow court orders to issue marriage licenses to gay couples.
Kim Davis and her deputy clerks were summoned to appear before US District Judge David Bunning after she repeatedly denied marriage licenses, cited her religious beliefs and “God’s authority.”
“You can’t be separated from something that’s in your heart and in your soul,” Davis tells the judge as she explained how the Supreme Court’s ruling legalizing gay marriage nationwide conflicts with the vows she made when she became a born-again Christian.
“I promised to love Him with all my heart, mind and soul because I wanted to make heaven my home,” Davis says.
The judge says she left him with no alternative but to jail her, since fines alone would not serve to change her mind. She is escorted out of his courtroom by a deputy, although not in handcuffs, to be turned over to the custody of federal marshals.
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