When Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis returns to work sometime in the next few days, at least one of her employees says he'll keep granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples despite indications that his boss won't allow it.
"When Miss Davis comes back, I'll still issue licenses," Rowan County deputy clerk Brian Mason told NBC News Wednesday.
He and four other deputy clerks have been granting licenses to same sex couples since Davis was jailed last week for refusing to do so. A devout Christian, she says authorizing the unions — deemed legal in June by the U.S. Supreme Court — would violate her conscience and religious freedom.
Davis argues that the licenses issued during her jailing were not valid because her deputies didn't have the authority.
