Did Kim Davis just want her name removed from the marriage licenses?

Question

A commenter at Hot Air writes about Kim Davis, the county clerk from Kentucky who was jailed for refusing the issue same-sex marriage certificates.

Nope she is quite willing to issue marriage licences (and out of all the gin joints and bars so …a couple of gays who couldn’t drive 30 miles further had to be bussed in to walk into her tiny neck of the woods? Hmmmm).

She also has no objection to deputies issuing marriage licences.

She has no objection of anyone in her office issuing marriage licences to GLBT.

She herself does not want to have her name on GLBT licences as it violates her conscience. And she has no opt out option because a. the law is unclear and b. legislators are too lazy to clarify and c. Mark Steyn was right except not just about the Epsicopalians.

Is this comment about Davis right? Because it sounds like she changed her story and later pointed out that the signed papers without her signature were not valid, as I recall.

Answer 1

The New York Times reported:

The clerk, Kim Davis of Rowan County, Ky., was ordered detained for contempt of court and later rejected a proposal to allow her deputies to process same-sex marriage licenses that could have prompted her release.

That would seem to invalidate points #2 and #3. As for point #4, that would be between Kim Davis and her conscience, such as it is, and is not answerable in this context.

The first point lacks a notable claim, so I haven't bothered addressing it.

Answer 2

The current state of the world is that marriage licenses are issued in Kim Davis' office by other employees, according to NBC News:

Kentucky clerk Kim Davis has obeyed orders to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in the months since she spent five nights in jail for refusing to do so, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. [...] [A judge] found that Davis has allowed her deputies to issue licenses to anyone eligible since September and that the altered licenses are likely valid under Kentucky law.

The licenses do not have her name on them. This is in compliance with an executive order issued by Governor Matt Bevin and later by a state law allowing the same thing. From the latter link:

She was sued and jailed for five days when a judge held her in contempt of court, but she was later released when other employees in the clerk’s office began issuing licenses.

The next link is to a story that is contemporaneous with her release.

Kim Davis did originally question whether licenses without her signature were legally valid. But I don't know of, nor can I find, any support for her opposing making such licenses valid. Her attorneys' suggestion at the time of her release was to make the licenses issued by the state instead of the County Clerks. Then Governor Steve Beshear (whose term has since ended) refused to call a special session of the legislature to do that.