The Republican-dominated Kentucky Senate recently voted overwhelmingly to create a separate-but-equal marriage license system in the state: Opposite-sex couples may continue to call themselves bride and groom on the license, while same-sex couples can use a different form that refers to first party and second party. Republicans claim that the system was designed to “respect traditional marriage”; as John Culhane explained in Slate,
the obvious actual purpose is to “disparage same-sex couples by
bundling them into an android space.” (One clue as to the bill’s true
intention: Republicans rejected an amendment that would create one form
for everyone and allow couples to choose among the terms husband, wife, and spouse.)
Everyone is calling the Kentucky measure the “Kim Davis bill,” after the infamous Rowan County clerk who denied marriage licenses to same-sex couples last summer. But as Kentucky Sen. Morgan McGarvey—who proposed the amendment calling for a single form—wrote on Facebook,
Davis actually opposes the separate-but-equal system. Instead, she
supported McGarvey’s alternative, agreeing with his proposition that
“one form is easier to handle, less expensive and puts everyone on equal
footing”:
Kim Davis opposes Kentucky’s separate but equal marriage license bill.
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