MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) – As April Miller drove to work, still too stunned to grasp the magnitude of the fight erupting around her, an old song crackled over the car radio.
“Will you still love me for the rest of my life?” the band Chicago sang. “I can’t go on if I’m on my own.”
Miller pulled over. And for the first time since she and her partner stepped into the vortex of history, she wept.
“I had been trying to keep it together, keep it even, trying not to let my blood pressure go up,” she said.
The day before, Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis refused her a license to marry Karen Roberts, her partner for more than a decade. Rather than comply with the U.S. Supreme Court’s legalization of gay marriage nationwide, the Apostolic Christian has invoked “God’s authority” in refusing license any marriages at all.