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FRANKFORT, Ky. _ Gay couples in Kentucky are questioning the validity of altered marriage licences issued by a defiant county clerk and have asked a federal judge to order her to reissue the licences or put the office in receivership and have someone else do it.

Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis is prepared to return to jail over her beliefs, according to an interview that aired Tuesday morning on “Good Morning America” — the first she’s given since her refusal to issue licenses gained national attention.

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“I have never once spouted a word of hate. I have not been hateful,” she said. She also said the licenses going out of her office now, issued by a deputy clerk, don’t have her authorization and are “not valid in God’s eyes.”

Davis stopped issuing all marriage licences in June after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling effectively legalized gay marriage nationwide. Two gay couples and two straight couples sued her. A federal judge ordered Davis to issue the licences and the U.S. Supreme Court upheld that order.