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When she returned to work last week, she confiscated the marriage licences and replaced them. The new licences say they were issued not under the authority of the county clerk, but “pursuant to federal court order.”

But on Monday, lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union wrote that the validity of the altered licences is “questionable at best,” and that the new licences bring “humiliation and stigma” to the gay couples who receive them. They asked U.S. District Judge David Bunning to order Davis’ office to reissue the licenses. If Davis interferes, the lawyers say Bunning should place her office in a receivership for the purposes of issuing marriage licenses.

“The adulterated marriage licences received by Rowan County couples will effectively feature a stamp of animus against the LGBT community, signalling that, in Rowan County, the government’s position is that LGBT couples are second-class citizens unworthy of official recognition and authorization of their marriage licences but for this Court’s intervention and Order,” the lawyers for the couples wrote in a court filing.