By Alex Acquisto, Lexington Herald-Leader

LEXINGTON, Ky. — When Kim Davis, then the Rowan County clerk, repeatedly refused to sign her name to marriage licenses for unions of gay couples in her Eastern Kentucky county in the summer of 2015, she set off a firestorm that’s still smoldering today.

“For me, this would be an act of disobedience to God,” she told reporters in Morehead that September day a decade ago, just after her release from jail for violating a federal judge’s order demanding she issue the licenses.

The U.S. Supreme Court had legalized gay marriage months earlier, paving the way for same-sex couples in states, like Kentucky, that had previously banned the unions to have theirs legally recognized.

Tearing up, Davis said the courts were forcing her to choose between “my co

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