US clerk fight order to issue gay marriage licences

CHICAGO;   A Kentucky country clerk  sought
relief Thursday from a court injunction that
requires her issue same sex marriage certificates,
insisting that it would violate her religious freedom.

Smattering of countries across the Bible belt initially
refused to provide same -sex marriage licenses on
religious grounds in  the Wake of the  Supreme
court's landmark June 26 ruling which legalised
gay marriage across the United States.

Most relented  in a matter of days'Rowan country
Clerk Kim Davis did not 'She stopped issuing any
marriage certificates at all and argued the policy
could not be considered discriminatory if it applied
to everyone.

A federal judge disagreed  in a 28 page ruling Wednesday
in which he found the policy unconstitutionally placed
an undue burden on local residents and set a bad
president,

"Her religious convictions   cannot excuse her
from performing the duties that she took an oath
to perform as Rowan Country Clerk "Judge David
Burning wrote as he ordered Davis to issue marriage
licenses

Davis disagreed in a motion seeking to block Burning
order until her appeal is heard
"If she is forced to authorities and approved a SSM
(same sex marriage) licenses no one and no court
can unring that  bell" her lawyers wrote

"That searing act of validation would forever echo
in her conscience ,and if it happened ,there is no
absolution or correction that any earthly court can
provide to rectify it "
AFP