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General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: TomSea on July 23, 2017, 03:37:06 pm
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WND EXCLUSIVE
Judge who ordered Kim Davis to violate faith gives ACLU cash bonanza
Appeal promised of $223,000 payment from Kentucky taxpayers
Bob Unruh
A federal judge who sent Rowan County, Kentucky, clerk Kim Davis to jail for refusing to violate her faith now has awarded nearly $223,000 in state taxpayer funds to American Civil Liberties Union lawyers who sued Davis.
The ruling from Judge David Bunning, who even threatened Davis’ assistants when the battle over marriage licenses for same-sex couples was raging, also awarded the ACLU $2,000 in costs.
The state funds were awarded even though a magistrate who was assigned to investigate the Davis case concluded the pro-homosexual advocates were not the prevailing party in the fight, a necessity for them to be awarded a payout.
Bunning specifically ruled that Davis and the county were not liable for the money judgment.
The non-profit Liberty Counsel has been defending Davis since she decided her office would no longer provide marriage licenses to anyone – either homosexual or heterosexual couples – when the U.S. Supreme Court created same-sex “marriage.”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2017/07/judge-who-ordered-kim-davis-to-violate-faith-gives-aclu-cash-bonanza/#Hq8FDabm3kQ7DLSX.99