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Michelle Del Rey

Former Kentucky clerk who refused LGBT+ marriage licenses faces massive fine

Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

A Kentucky official who barred two LGBT+ men from obtaining a marriage licence has been ordered by a federal judge to pay them $260,084 in legal fees and expenses in their lawsuit against her.

Kim Davis first began denying same-sex couples marriage licences in 2015, shortly after the US Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples could marry. The two men, David Ermold and David Moore, were one of the couples Ms Davis refused.

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