A county clerk in Rowan County, Kentucky has capped her refusal to issue homosexual marriage licenses with a plea to the Supreme Court.  Kim Davis late this week filed an emergency petition asking the Supreme Court to put a hold on a lower-court ruling ordering her to begin issuing licenses to gays starting Monday.  Davis claims that signing such licenses would violate her religious principles. All well and good – an action much in keeping with Kentucky’s ancient reputation for independence.  But...there’s one thing that might raise questions as to how serious this effort is.  And that is the fact that she filed the petition not with Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, or Antonin Scalia, or even one of the centrist justices, but with...Elena Kagan. Now it goes without saying that Kagan, an Obama appointee, is one of the most liberal justices on the court.  But there are some further questions here as well.  Justice Kagan is the...(Read Full Post)