US Clerk set to return to work after jailing

A Kentucky county clerk may return to work today after a five-day stint in jail for refusing to issue marriage licences to same-sex couples.

Kim Davis was locked up last Thursday for the boldest act of resistance by a public official yet to the US Supreme Court ruling in June that effectively legalised same-sex marriage across the nation.

Citing “God’s authority” and her belief that gay marriage is a sin, Davis stopped issuing all marriage licences.