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A federal judge said in a November 6 legal filing that former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis issued false responses about her assets in an inquiry to decide how she can repay her court-ordered payment of $565,000 to David Ermold and David Moore. Davis discriminated against the same-sex couple in 2015 when she illegally denied a marriage license to them, shortly after the US Supreme Court’s landmark Obergefell v. Hodges ruling legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.

Moore and Ermold said that the list of personal assets Davis shared with the court after it ordered her to pay the aforementioned sum was “materially false.” Davis said she owned no real estate, made no large transfers, and was not a beneficiary of any estate, WKYT reported. However, the couple said they discovered certified records in Rowan County showing that she had inherited 50% of her mother’s estate as well as signed deeds in 2025 transferring that property to her family members.

The men’s lawyers had asked Davis to produce documents “relating to any other real property you own, including deeds,” “reflecting transfers of property or assets made by you… in the past five years…exceeding $1,000,” and “reflecting any trusts or estate interests where you were designated as a beneficiary.”

In response, Davis submitted documents claiming that she “owns no real property” or any interest in real property, “made no transfers” that exceeded $2,000, and “is not designated as a beneficiary in any trust or estate.”

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I'm no Sherlock Holmes, and I didn't read the article, but my deductions lead me to believe that she didn't want to give her money away, even though she was supposed to. So, that's the explanation..."I didn't want to give my money away".

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

she didn’t want to give her money away

Settling a monetary judgment against you is not giving you money away any more than serving time in prison to settle a criminal judgment against you is giving time in your life away.

[–] bobjones1665@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Give to Caesar what is Caesar's. So pay Caesar already bitch.

[–] cloudshouter@lemmy.zip 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

That is the take I had back when it was first happening. She made a contract with the government that she would take a paycheck and do a function for them. She wasn’t personally condoning gayness, she was filing paperwork for continuity of ownership that happened to have both parties as male.
Once again, as the magic book says, fulfill the law. It says at least three times in the New Testament to obey the law, respect government, and pay taxes. If God thinks she was right, he could have shown up at court.

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 2 points 17 hours ago

These people don't actually care about religion or the Bible though.

[–] TheLowClassics@startrek.website 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

i'll give her a pass, if she was using the money to get a new haircut

[–] aSaabD00d@lemmy.today 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Every single time I see her, I assume its a story about Mormons or the Bible Belt until my brain registers who it is.

I guess it kind of is.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

It's been 11 years and she's still screwing them over

[–] kylie_kraft@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Davis, a conservative Christian who has been married four times, initially told the couple that she was acting “under God’s authority” when she refused to issue the license because she believes marriage is only between a man and a woman.

This was always the punchline to me. A Karen can be married four times and still think her opinion on the sanctity of marriage is worthy enough to dictate other people's ability to get married.

I mean, the hypocrisy is very christian, but it's always funny to see those details mentioned in the same sentence.

[–] cloudshouter@lemmy.zip 3 points 23 hours ago

The Bible actually and very specifically condemned her remarrying. It actually never said two men can’t marry. Technically there is not a biblical problem with two men being legally married.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

She hid them because she is a typical christen american. Married all those times and still thinks god always wants exactly what she wants.

[–] skeezix@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Pra ba jeeba

[–] Gpennyhigh@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

She hid it because she was brainwashed that she's righteous and feels wronged by the courts. She claims to follow her chosen, invented supernatural laws, but ignores the ones she wants to. Hypocrisy is a huge part of the dualistic, supernatural systems with conditional belonging, to fit in the unhealthy tribes. She thinks she has the right to punch down on people the indoctrination says are lower than her. In her cult, gay men are lower than multi-divorced woman, apparently. Perhaps she doth protest too much and is Kinsey scale 1-6 herself, and resents all the people who enjoy their same-gender attractions, and who left the toxic, unhealthy systems behind, freed with the real truth.

[–] CedricWhaley@lemmy.dbzer0.com 58 points 1 day ago

Court gives Kim Davis four days to explain why she hid her assets

I can think of a few...

to avoid paying a gay couple $565K

Oh, so you already knew the answer.

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 92 points 2 days ago (2 children)

"Your Honor, I hid my assets because that's a fuckload of money that I don't want taken from me."

Welp, you had every opportunity to stop acting like a cunt, and you failed Kim.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 24 points 1 day ago

That would at least be partially honest, though the actual answer would probably contain at least two slurs.

[–] Widdershins@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I am generally against making fun of people for their looks which they cannot change. That said, this stupid bitch has butt-ugly hair and has chosen to have butt-ugly hair the entire duration of her stupid bitch infamy. That is over a decade of a hairstyle that, as I type this out, I am led to believe is worn that way to continue to offend the gays. She could pick any new hair style from The Undertaker's Deadman or Return of the Deadman eras. Hair looking like it does is a choice she makes.

she so ugly she'd make a train take a dirt road.

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 65 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Why does she look like someone pulled her straight out of a Beavis and Butthead episode?

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because she's from Kentucky.

[–] cloudshouter@lemmy.zip 2 points 23 hours ago

Good ol’ family ladder.

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Because evil shows on your face

[–] toothpaste_sandwich@thebrainbin.org 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This seems like a dangerous statement. See physiognomy.

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 20 points 1 day ago

If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

Roald Dahl, The Twits

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't mean to imply that you should judge people based on their face, never do that.

[–] MrSelfDestruct@reddthat.com 27 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 25 points 1 day ago

Ok, sometimes do that.

[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

the more you find out about him the more evil he looks.

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Christ man give me a trigger warning

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 day ago

I’m really looking forward to her assets getting liquidated and the couple she’s persecuting finally enjoying the payday. She’s gonna be mad af and I’m gonna be happy as can be.

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 53 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

My favorite joke

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I was about to ask how in the world a Kentucky clerk of the court could have enough to pay a half million settlement, but inheritance, I guess makes sense.

[–] QueenHawlSera@piefed.social 16 points 1 day ago

You'll find the answer to your question "Why did she hide her assets to avoid paying gay couple?" within the question.... To avoid paying gay couple

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

What can I say other than lol.

[–] rauls5@lemmy.zip 28 points 2 days ago

The question is the answer

[–] Zier@fedia.io 19 points 2 days ago

I cannot wait for the court to take her assets. What an evil hypocrite 'christian'. May she burn in the hell she believes in. I hope she is homeless for decades up until her death.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Every time I see her name I think of that stupid Kim Carnes song

[–] MumboJumbo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think your link is broken, it just directs to a fucking awesome Kim Carnea Song ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Sorry I just don't like overplayed songs, no matter how good they are.

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