Kim Davis is heading back to court. This time, it is not because she is denying marriage licenses to same-sex couples, but because she would not allow a man to marry his computer.

Davis has been a clerk in Rowan County, Kentucky since 2014. In 2015 she was jailed for a five-day sentence after famously refusing to marry same-sex couples on the grounds that it was against her religion to do so. Davis has since returned to work and has agreed to follow the law, but she remains under the public’s microscope.

When anti-LGBT lawyer, Mark “Christopher” Sevier requested a license to marry his laptop, Davis applied the law and denied his request on the grounds that his laptop is not a human. Sevier maintains that his right to marry his computer is the same as any same-sex couple’s right to marry, and is now suing Davis as well as Governor Matt Bevin and Kentucky Attorney General, Andy Beshear.

Mat Staver, Founder, and Chair of Liberty Counsel represented Davis when she was sued the first time around and says this case is “frivolous” and that there is obviously no right for a man to marry a machine.

“When you make gender irrelevant to a gender-based relationship you open Pandora's box and make a mockery out of marriage," Staver commented.

In other related news this week, the Kentucky Attorney General found Ms. Davis to be in violation of the Open Records Act, as she followed the advice from the Liberty Counsel to withhold documents pertaining to the battle for marriage equality. Staver has not said yet whether they will challenge the ruling.

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