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   Supporters of Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis, who refused to   
   issue marriage licenses to gay couples due to her religious   
   beliefs, said on Wednesday that any of her deputies who provide   
   the documents without her permission should be fired.   
      
   U.S. District Judge David Bunning ordered Davis released on   
   Tuesday after six days in jail, warning her not to interfere   
   with her deputy clerks who are issuing the licenses, or face   
   further sanctions.   
      
   Bunning had found Davis, clerk for Rowan County in eastern   
   Kentucky, in contempt after she stopped issuing licenses to any   
   couples, citing her belief as an Apostolic Christian that a   
   marriage can only be between a man and a woman.   
      
   The issuance of marriage licenses to same-sex couples in   
   Kentucky and other states has become the latest focal point in   
   the long-running debate over gay marriage in the United States.   
      
   Ante Pavkovic, one of the people who helped organize pro-Davis   
   rallies outside the Grayson, Kentucky, detention center where   
   Davis was jailed, lectured the deputy clerks not to violate   
   their oaths of office. He criticized Bunning and the U.S.   
   Supreme Court justices who backed gay marriage.   
      
   "Do not join them in this any further, and if you can't do that,   
   then you should just quit," Pavkovic, 49, of North Carolina,   
   said, standing in the clerk's office in Morehead, Kentucky.   
      
   He waved a sign in the faces of the deputy clerks that read,   
   "Fire the cowardly clerks that are lawbreakers." He was asked to   
   leave by a deputy sheriff.   
      
   Davis will return to her $80,000-a-year job on Monday after   
   spending time with family, a spokeswoman for her attorney said.   
   However, her lawyer, Mat Staver, founder of Christian religious   
   advocacy group Liberty Counsel, said on Tuesday her position had   
   not changed, raising the possibility she could return to jail if   
   she moves to block the issuance of licenses.   
      
   Asked on Wednesday if Davis would fire the deputies or take any   
   other action if they issued licenses, Liberty Counsel attorney   
   Harry Mihet did not address the question.   
      
   He said Davis loved her deputies, adding they were forced by   
   judicial threats to issue the licenses. He reiterated that she   
   was looking for a solution that did not violate the law or the   
   consciences of the deputies.   
      
   Raising the stakes further, deputy clerk Brian Mason said on   
   Wednesday he would continue issuing marriage licenses after   
   Davis returns, even if she tells him not to. "I'm still going to   
   issue licenses," he said.   
      
   The U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling in late June legalizing   
   it in all 50 states, but a small number of elected clerks and   
   lower-level judges have voiced opposition on religious grounds.   
      
   At the Rowan County clerk's office on Wednesday, the first of   
   seven gay couples to obtain marriage licenses since Friday   
   returned to have the documents legally filed. Ten licenses in   
   all have been issued.   
      
   "The ante has been upped at this point," Nashia Fife, secretary-   
   elect of the Rowan County Rights Coalition, which supports the   
   rights of gay couples to get marriage licenses, said of   
   Bunning's warning to Davis not to interfere.   
      
   Staver, Davis' lawyer, said his client still wants an   
   accommodation to remove her name and her authority from the   
   marriage certificates.   
      
   Bunning secured assurances from five of the six deputy clerks   
   that they would comply with the court order and issue licenses   
   to all legally eligible couples. Only Davis' son Nathan refused,   
   but he was not jailed.   
      
   http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/09/us-usa-gaymarriage-   
   kentucky-idUSKCN0R91RC20150909   
       
      
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