Support and attention are growing for the deputy clerk who’s issuing marriage licenses as his boss refuses to do so over her religious views on homosexuality.
Brian Mason issued a license to a lesbian couple Monday, the first one granted since Rowan County clerk Kim Davis returned to work after being jailed for defying a judge. Davis says she won’t issue or authorize licenses, but she also won’t interfere with her deputies granting them. She questions whether they’re valid without her authorization.
As attention on Mason grew, a man delivered a gift bag to him with bourbon balls and a candle. A Facebook support group was created for him.
Hecklers shouted “coward” at him, but he smiled at them and turned back to his work. He declined to detail his position on gay marriage or on Davis’ defiance. But he remained calm, scrolling on his computer and chewing gum despite the scene before him. Cameras crowded around his counter, with some reporters climbing step ladders to get a better shot of him at his desk.
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