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MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) -- A Kentucky clerk's office turned away two gay couples seeking marriage licenses on Thursday, defying a federal judge's order that dismissed her argument involving religious freedom.
Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis' office rejected the couples' bid for licenses just hours after the judge ruled she must do the opposite and wrote that the refusal "likely violated the constitutional rights of her constituents."
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"If you want a statement from me, I will say that people are cruel, they are cruel, these people are cruel," Ermold said.
"This is how gay people are treated in this country. This is what it's like. This is how it feels.