Anti-Gay Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis Is Going to Jail and the Internet Is Going to Town on Her

U.S. District Judge David Bunning found her in contempt of court for refusing to grant a same-sex couple a marriage license and now Twitter is making Orange Is the New Black jokes

By Jenna Mullins Sep 03, 2015 6:48 PMTags
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Huh. Turns out, if you don't follow a federal court order, you go to jail. Who knew?!

The Internet (and all human beings with common sense) knew. So no one is really surprised that anti-gay Kentucky clerk Kim Davis' refusal to issue a marriage license to a same-sex couple because it goes against her Christian beliefs found herself being sent to jail.

Davis had been ordered by the federal court to do her job and issue licenses despite her personal beliefs, after she refused a couple that came into her office for a marriage license three times. So Thursday morning she was called before U.S. District Judge David Bunning, who found her in contempt of court. She has been remanded to jail until she complies with the Supreme Court's order.

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Crowds that gathered outside the courthouse reportedly started chanting "love wins" when news of her punishment broke, but the celebration on Twitter was far bigger. It looks like people are pretty sick and tired of hearing how loving couples are unable to get married because of someone else's beliefs:

Kim. Girl. When even the Westboro Baptist Church, the funeral-picketing scum of the earth, can't stand you, it might be time to rethink your life decisions:

Oof. That is rough.

"The court does not take this lightly, ma'am," Judge Bunning told Davis during her hearing.

"Her good-faith belief is simply not a viable defense," he added. "Oaths mean things. The idea of natural law superseding this court…to let that carry the day would set a dangerous precedent."

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