Kentucky Clerk Kim Appeals Contempt Ruling, John Kasich Said She 'Should Follow The Law'

Kim Davis, the clerk who was jailed for standing up for her beliefs and not issuing a same sex marriage license, filed an appeal for the judge's ruling that put her in jail.

According to the Associated Press, attorneys for the Kentucky clerk appealed the ruling with a three-page motion that does not include statements as to why Davis should be released, but rather amends on Davis' earlier appeal.

The clerk was jailed on account of not issuing marriage licenses to same sex applicants. She reportedly stopped issuing licenses in June, after the US Supreme Court legalized gay marriage nationwide. As a result, two gay couples and two straight couples sued her.

Davis refused to issue licenses even after US District Judge David Bunning ordered her, saying she could not betray her conscience.

Bunning sent her to jail, ruling that Davis was in contempt of court for disobeying his order. Deputy clerks were put in her absence.

"Civil rights are civil rights and they are not subject to belief," said James Yates, as per AP. Yates acquired a marriage license after having been denied five times,

Reuters reports that in Davis' absence, deputy clerks issued marriage licenses to at least four same sex couples.

One of Davis' attorneys, Mat Staver, said that the issues that were licensed in her absence are not valid because Davis refused to authorize them. Bunning, who did not know if the licenses were valid or not, had them issued anyway.

Roger Gannam, also an attorney for Davis, said via Reuters: "The contempt order itself was unlawful."

"Judge Bunning was ready to release her if she would not interfere with her deputies issuing marriage licenses. She declined," said Allison Connelly, director of the Legal Clinic at the University of Kentucky College of Law. "The judge's actions were entirely reasonable given that testimony."

CBS news reports Republican presidential candidate John Kasich, who himself opposes same-sex marriage, said that Davis should "follow the law."

"I respect the fact that this lady doesn't agree, but she's also a government employee," Kasich said on ABC News' "This Week." "She's not running a church. I wouldn't force this on a church, but in terms of her responsibility I think she has to comply."

Mike Huckabee, another Republican presidential candidate, said Davis is fighting against "judicial tyranny," according to ABC news.

"What we've seen here is the overreach of the judiciary," he said. "This, if allowed to stand without any congressional approval, without any kind of enabling legislation, is what [President Thomas] Jefferson warned us about. That's judicial tyranny."

Huckabee will travel Tuesday to meet Davis and rally with her supporters.