I will die before letting gays marry (another court clerk)
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A Kentucky clerk refusing to grant marriage licenses to gay couples has vowed to die fighting for his ‘religious freedom.’
Casey County clerk Casey Davis stopped issuing all marriage licenses since the US Supreme Court’s 26 June ruling that legalized gay marriage nationwide.
He is no relation to Kim Davis, the other Kentucky clerk who has also refused to comply with the decision. Her emergency appeal asking for religious exemption from serving gay couples was denied on Monday (31 August).
In an 24 August interview on the Tom Roten Morning Show, Casey vowed to continue to defy the Supreme Court even to the point of death, Right Wing Watch first reported.
‘It’s a war on Christianity,’ he said.
‘There is a travesty taking place with that Supreme Court ruling was completely unconstitutional, completely unconstitutional. They have no right to tell us, the state of Kentucky, that our law that was voted with what was 70% of the people that it was wrong, they had no right.’
Davis continued: ‘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… 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.’
