Former county clerk had disputed lawyers’ fees for Kentucky couple who won $100,000 damages

Kim Davis, the former county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses in Kentucky to same-sex couples, must pay a total of $260,104 in fees and expenses to attorneys who represented one couple, according to a federal judge’s ruling.

That is in addition to $100,000 in damages a jury said the former Rowan county clerk should pay the couple who sued.

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Davis drew international attention when she was briefly jailed in 2015 over her refusal despite the US supreme court’s legalization of same-sex marriage. She based her refusal on her belief that marriage should only be between a man and a woman.

  • toasteecup@lemmy.worldEnglish
    127·
    1 year ago

    Good. Your religion does not control how a government functions. You want to live in a theocracy? Go live in Vatican City or one of the more authoritarian Islamic countries. If you live in the US the policy is what the government, not your God, make it.

    • Buffalox@lemmy.world
      404·
      1 year ago

      Unfortunately if this goes to supreme court, she’ll get away Scott free. USA is becoming a theocracy, celebrating Christian doctrine as if it was Sharia law in a muslim country.

          • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            24·
            1 year ago

            I hope so too, and their inability to try anything new is what gives me hope that it is indeed an extinction burst.

            Because extinction bursts are generally characterized by a “this is what worked before, we just have to do what worked before harder!” attitude, which generally seems to be the attitude the Christofascists have.

            They’re not selling any new ideas or changing tactics from what they have used in the past, it definitely seems like “just more of the same, but harder” because they don’t actually have any ideas. Which tracks as an extinction burst, imho.

            Which like, who expects a death cult to have any actual ideas?

            • Buffalox@lemmy.world
              13·
              1 year ago

              just more of the same, but harder

              I agree, but I’m disappointed that so many follow that line, instead of most of them thinking this has gone too far. Where is the point where people begin to turn back to normalcy again? I sure hope the extinction burst doesn’t include a full fledged fascist christian dictatorship, that may take decades to turn back from.

        • TherouxSonfeir@lemm.ee
          4·
          1 year ago

          Sadly, the extinction burst is us getting crazy before we kill ourselves and the EARTH (minus humans) returns to a more stable environment.

      • vexikron@lemmy.zip
        15·
        1 year ago

        Hey bucko, here in JesusLand, ya’ll best stay on the right side of God and his Holy Ya’ll Qaeda militias, otherwise the Gays might cause another Hurricane!

        • Buffalox@lemmy.world
          10·
          1 year ago

          Yes I understand there’s that issue with gays in USA. I’m lucky to live in Denmark, one of the least religious countries in the world, and for some weird reason, also one of the most blessed by God. For some reason God likes our Gay way better than the American. Go figure? 🤪
          Or maybe we are just less cursed, because God gave up on us? 😱