Hate Group Appeals Kim Davis’s $360,000 Judgment

Via email from hate group leader Mat Staver:

Liberty Counsel filed its Opening Brief of an appeal to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Ermold v. Davis requesting to overturn the jury verdict on behalf of former Rowan County Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis.

In the case, Liberty Counsel argues for religious freedom with the goal to overturn the 2015 marriage case known as Obergefell v. Hodges.

The Opening Brief argues that (1) there is no evidence to support the jury verdict, (2) Kim Davis was entitled to an accommodation of her sincerely held religious beliefs, and (3) that the 2015 case of Obergefell. v. Hodges should be overruled.

The Ermold jury reached a verdict of $50,000 for each plaintiff and the judge also awarded the plaintiffs an additional $246,000 in attorney’s fees and $14,000 in expenses despite lacking evidence to support the awarding of emotional damages.

Liberty Counsel presents the case that Davis is protected under the First Amendment Free Exercise of Religion, was entitled to religious accommodation, that the Supreme Court’s 2015 opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges should be overturned, and that she is not liable for damages.

The post closes with the usual money beg.