Gay couple can sue Kim Davis for damages, appeals court rules
A federal appeal court has revived a homosexual couple’s claim for damages against Kentucky clerk Kim Davis for refusing to sign their marriage licence . In August 2016, U.S. District Judge David Bunning tossed out as moot three lawsuits against Davis, citing Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin ’s executive order that allowed marriage licences to be printed without the issuing clerk’s name on them. A clerk in Rowan County and a born-again Apostolic Christian , Davis was willing to issue marriage licenses to homosexual couples but had asked for a religious exemption not to sign her name to them, because she believed doing so would endorse homosexuality. But in a May 2 ruling , three judges on 6th U.S. Circuit Appeal Court reversed Bunning’s decision on the lawsuit brought against Davis by homosexual couple David Ermold and David Moore. They ruled Ermold and Moore were not suing against a general policy but were seeking “damages for a particularized harm al...