Kim Davis isn't the only official refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses

Kim Davis isn't the alone official abnegation to affair same-sex alliance licenses, The Kentucky canton agent abnegation to affair same-sex alliance licenses isn't the alone bounded official in the United States application adoration as a base for abstinent licenses to gay couples.

A federal adjudicator confined Kim Davis for antipathy of cloister on Thursday afterwards she afresh banned to affair alliance licenses to gays in Rowan County, Ky., pursuant to the Supreme Cloister accommodation beforehand this year. A lot of Republican presidential candidates are abetment Davis, adage her imprisonment is an advance on religious liberty.

Despite the Supreme Court's 5-4 battleground cardinal in the same-sex alliance case, abounding added bounded admiral beyond the country are not giving up the fight.

In Oregon, an belief analysis of Marion Canton Circuit Adjudicator Vance Day has been launched afterward his accommodation not to accomplish same-sex marriages, Patrick Korten, a agent for the judge, accepted Thursday.

Patrick Korten, a agent for Day, said the adjudicator has never performed a same-sex alliance back abutting the bank in 2011. He chock-full assuming marriages of any affectionate this bounce and abreast his agents that if same-sex alliance became acknowledged in Oregon to accredit couples gluttonous all marriages to added canton judges.

According to Korten, Day has never performed a same-sex alliance because of "deeply captivated religious beliefs." "He has a appropriate to those behavior beneath the United States Constitution," Korten said.

In Granbury, Texas, a federal cloister in July accountable Hood Canton Agent Katie Lang to affair a authorization to Granbury association Joe Stapleton and Jim Cato; Texas law aswell requires clerks to almanac alliance licenses. By the time that case was settled, canton taxpayers had to bottom a $43,000 bill, according to the Dallas Morning News.

Lang still doesn't accede with same-sex alliance and says so on her website but is acceptance assembly in her appointment to affair the licenses, something that Davis altar to because the certificates buck her name as an adopted official.

In Alabama, the law states that probate board "may" affair the licenses rather than "shall." At atomic 10 counties and potentially as abounding as 15 had shuttered their alliance authorization operations as of Wednesday with no date for relaunching them, according to Ianthe Metzger of the Human Rights Campaign.

In North Carolina, a law acceptance admiral to burden from administering marriage-related duties has led to added than 30 magistrates abnegation to accomplish same-sex unions, AP reported.

Since the law went into aftereffect in June, admiral with a "sincerely captivated religious objection" can abandon assuming marriages. Alone Utah has a agnate law, AP reported.

Sen. Phil Berger, R-N.C., said the law is a lot of acceptable preventing a bearings agnate to the case involving Davis in the county.

"It's befitting association from accepting to accept amid their jobs and their religious beliefs," Berger, told AP. "I anticipate that's important."
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