Kentucky County Clerk Casey Davis Prepared To Die Over Right To Deny Gay Couples Marriage License

Kentucky County Clerk Casey Davis

Although Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis has gotten most of the headlines lately over refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, she's not the only Kentucky county clerk to do so.

Casey County Clerk Casey Davis recently appeared on a local Kentucky radio show and said he's prepared to die over his right to deny gay couples a marriage license.

“Our law says ‘one man and one woman’ and that is what I held my hand up and took an oath to and that is what I expected.

"If it takes it, I will go to jail over — if it takes my life, I will die for because I believe I owe that to the people that fought so I can have the freedom that I have, I owe that to them today, and you do, we all do.

"They fought and died so we could have this freedom and I’m going to fight and die for my kids and your kids can keep it.”

You can listen to Davis via Right Wing Watch below:

Kentucky: Governor Advises County Clerk To Issue Marriage Licenses To Same-Sex Couples Or Resign

Earlier today, Casey County Clerk Casey Davis left a one-on-one meeting with the Governor of Kentucky, Democrat Steve Beshear, who advised the county clerk to do his job, issue marriage licenses to all couples regardless of gender – or resign.

Davis says he is refusing to issue licenses to same-sex couples, and is refusing to resign.

Governor Beshear has issued this statement regarding the meeting:

This morning, I advised Mr. Davis that I respect his right to his own personal beliefs regarding same-sex marriages.

However, when he was elected, he took a constitutional oath to uphold the United States Constitution. According to the United States Supreme Court, the Constitution now requires that governmental officials in Kentucky and elsewhere must recognize same-sex marriages as valid and allow them to take place. One of Mr. Davis’ duties as county court clerk is to issue marriage licenses, and the Supreme Court now says that the United States Constitution requires those marriage licenses to be issued regardless of gender. Mr. Davis’ own county attorney has advised him that his oath requires him to do so.

Davis has also asked that same-sex couples be allowed to obtain their marriage licenses online so he doesn't have to deal with them.

A group of county clerks has asked the governor to call a special session of the state legislature to address the issue of same-sex marriage.

Gov. Bashear has already said he has no plans to spend hundred of thousands of tax payer dollars on a special session about what is now settled law.