A federal judge has ordered a Kentucky county clerk to jail on Thursday after she refused to issue marriage licenses because her religion opposes same-sex unions, her attorneys said.
U.S. District Judge David Bunning told Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis she would be jailed until she complied with his order to issue the licenses, her attorneys said after a morning hearing.
Davis said “thank you” before she was led out of the courtroom by a U.S. marshal, the Associated Press reported. She was not in handcuffs.
Davis stopped issuing licenses to all couples, gay and straight, in June after the U.