She's out. Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis was released from jail on Tuesday, Sept. 8, after serving time for refusing to hand out same-sex marriage licenses.
As previously reported, District Judge David Bunning ordered Davis to be put behind bars on Thursday, Sept. 3, for her actions. She specifically stopped issuing all marriage licenses on June 27, one day after the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage in the United States.
"To issue a marriage license which conflicts with God's definition of marriage, with my name affixed to the certificate, would violate my conscience," Davis said at the time. "It is not a light issue for me." (Davis was previously married four times — twice to the same man — and had two children out of wedlock.)
According to USA Today, Bunning allowed Davis, 50, to be released after five days because her coworkers have issued marriage licenses to all eligible couples in her absence.
"[She shall not] interfere in any way, directly or indirectly, with the efforts of her deputy clerks to issue marriage licenses to all legally eligible couples," Bunning wrote Tuesday. If she does, "appropriate sanctions" will be administered.
Davis began working as a clerk in Rowan County back in January. Before that, she worked under her mother, who was also a clerk, for 27 years.
