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The Lexington Herald-Leader reports: Kentucky clerk Kim Davis, hauled to jail for defying a series of federal court orders and refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, filed a 40-page court document Thursday, blaming Kentucky governor Steve Beshear for all her legal woes. The day the Supreme Court effectively legalized gay marriage in June, Beshear sent a letter to …

“In 2003, Justice Kennedy, in the Lawrence opinion of the Supreme Court, wrote that liberty is ‘the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.’ That was not only bad metaphysics but blatant legal positivism; a philosophy which says, in effect, that the law is what the court …

The Liberty Counsel’s batting record STILL stands at 0.000.

Yesterday Kim Davis told ABC News that she not only has gay friends, she’s personally denied them a marriage license.  The search for these alleged friends is now on. First, let’s hear from Kentucky Equality: Does Kim Davis have gay friends whom she has denied marriage licenses as she claimed to ABC’s Good Morning America? Are you one of her …

ABC News is spreading their Kim Davis interview across several shows, starting with GMA this morning, then The View, with more to come tonight on Nightline. A few days ago Mat Staver twice outrageously claimed that somebody on The View had called for Davis to be killed, but sadly they did not address that lie today. According to ABC reporter …

“They want her scalp to hang on the wall as a trophy. Kim Davis has made a good faith effort to comply with the court’s order and has not prevented the issuance of marriage licenses by Deputy Clerks. While these licenses do not have her name on them, the Governor said last Monday they were valid. Judge Bunning also said …

Good Morning America this morning aired their interview with an always sobbing Kim Davis, who says that she’s prepared to return to jail and that God is the only authority she obeys. Davis added that the licenses issued since her release from jail “are not valid in God’s eyes.” Oh, and she TOTALLY has gay friends. Via ABC News: “What …

The Associated Press reports: The attorney for one of the deputy clerks in Kim Davis’ office says Davis disobeyed a federal judge’s order when she altered marriage license forms for same-sex couples. Deputy Clerk Brian Mason has been issuing marriage licenses in Rowan County over the objections of Davis, the elected county clerk who believes same-sex marriage is a sin. …

Over the last of few weeks the rest of America met Mat Staver as a creepy-eyed somber lawyer pleading for “reasonable” accommodations in measured tones. But as this video shows, the REAL Mat Staver is a ranting lunatic who promises that God will kill the fuck out of anybody who doesn’t submit to Christian sharia law.

The Liberty Counsel’s unbroken losing streak remains intact as the Sixth Circuit Court has YET AGAIN told Kim Davis to suck it regarding her incessant stay demands. Equality Case Files has the latest smackdown below.

As Kyle Mantyla notes, we’re pretty sure this would have made national news if it had ever happened. Staver: “Kim has received just horrible death threats, even from ‘The View,’ amazingly. They called her a monster on national television, one of them said that someone ought to go kill her. This is on a major network. That was on ‘The …

“Crush the eggs of the baby serpents before they hatch. The sodomite, the atheist, the fanatic feminist, the Muslim — all such must be deemed as criminals and enemies to civilization, for they war against the Faith, promote death and hate life. They should be told to leave their wicked ways under coercion, and if that does not work, then …

Hate group leader and alleged kidnapping co-conspirator Mat Staver appeared on C-SPAN this morning to battle Human Rights Campaign legal director Sarah Warbelow about the Kim Davis case. Staver: “Kim Davis is a lovely individual. She has a lot of courage.” Stick around for the callers.

Megyn Kelly has hosted hate group leader Mat Staver for the umpteenth time so that he could declare that while he doesn’t know what Kim Davis will do when she gets to work on Monday, he knows that she’ll never resign and never “surrender her Christian faith.” Legal observers believe that if Davis attempts to interfere with her deputy clerks, …

Those of you predicting the immediate rearrest of Kim Davis will have to wait until at least Friday, as she is taking a couple of Personal Jesus days. In the meantime there’s a flotilla of national press milling around rural Kentucky with nothing to do for at least 48 hours.

Triumphantly flanked by hate group leader Mat Staver and Mike Huckabee, Kim Davis stopped sobbing long enough to offer the press a smile, nodding “yes” when they asked if her jailing had been worth it. Unsurprisingly the haters are spinning Davis’ release as a victory even though nothing has changed at her office.

Kyle Mantyla has the text at Right Wing Watch: “A clerk provides licenses to do something,” Staver explained. “A license to operate a motor vehicle on the road, a license to build a particular facility or a license to do this or a license to do that or a license to operate a business. So that person is licensing someone …

Raw Story has the amusing story: A panel of legal experts on Fox News came to the conclusion on Monday that Kim Davis’ attorney, Mat Staver, was “ridiculously stupid” for asserting that the Supreme Court did not have constitutional authority to strike down same-sex marriage bans. On Monday’s edition of Happening Now, trial attorney Chip Merlin pointed out that anyone …

You’ll enjoy this. Crooks & Liars has the recap: Chris Hayes is getting better at dealing with all-out crazy people on his show, but I won’t lie — this is still painful to watch. Liberty Counsel director Mat Staver, who is Kim Davis’ attorney, appeared to cry a river on Hayes’ show over Davis’ continued incarceration. At one point, he …

According to hate group leader Mat Staver, Kim Davis has declared from her jail cell that the marriage licenses issued today in Rowan County are invalid without her signature. Yahoo News reports: A jailed Kentucky clerk asserted that marriage licenses issued without her authority Friday to gay couples in Rowan County are void and “not worth the paper they are …