A decision that could alter the United States. Ten years after the legalization at the federal level of gay marriage in the United States, the country’s Supreme Court could deny this decision for the first time in autumn, as reported by ABC News.
In the coming months, the highest American court judges will have to establish whether or not they are in the Kim Davis matter. The latter, a former secretary of the Kentucky County County, appealed that the judicial decision led him to spend six days in prison for refusing to issue marriage licenses to a homosexual couple for religious reasons.
Kim Davis had also been ordered to pay $ 100,000 for moral prejudice to the couple and $ 260,000 for lawyers, according to US media.
“If there has never been a case of exceptional importance, it is the first person in the history of the Republic that has been imprisoned for having followed its religious convictions regarding the historical definition of marriage,” said Mathew Stover, lawyer Kim Davis.
“This error must be corrected,” said his defense.
“Madame Davis does not deserve to live in him”
The American, who submitted his request to Justice last month, judged that his decision was the amendment of the US Constitution, protecting it from any prosecution.
HE First amendment Forbidden, in particular, in the United States Congress to adopt laws that limit freedom of religion, who said he was the victim Kim Davis.
But so far all the courts of the country have rejected the former employee’s arguments. The American justice, at the beginning of the year, judged that the latter “cannot invoke the first amendment as a defense, because it is responsible for a state law, that the first amendment does not protect.”
As ABC News says, as an employee in 2015 during the events, Kim Davis was the only authority responsible for issuing marriage licenses on behalf of the Government under the State’s law, which he did not do.
“No Judge of the American Court of Appeals has expressed the slightest interest in the request for review of Mrs. Davis, and we are convinced that the Supreme Court will also agree that Mrs. Davis’s arguments do not deserve to be more attached to her,” said William Powell, lawyer of David Ermold and David Moore, the now married Kentucky to the couple who continue Grefière in damages, in a statement to a statement to a statement to the declaration.
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Source: BFM TV
