Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, who refused to issue any marriage licenses to Kentucky same-sex couples after the June 2015 U.S. Supreme Court marriage equality decision (watch the video of the incident here), testified Monday in a federal hearing that she prayed and fasted for months before deciding to stop issuing marriage licenses after the Supreme Court’s ruling.

Davis’s federal hearing stems from a lawsuit brought against her by two gay couples and two straight couples. A sometimes tearful Kim Davis took the stand Monday to say that her 1st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gives her the right to not deny marriage licenses to same-sex couples because it violates her religious beliefs.

“It was something I had prayed and fasted over … it wasn’t a spur of the moment decision,” Davis told U.S. District Judge David Bunning, as her voice broke. To authorize licenses means “I’m saying I agree with it and I can’t.”

She claims her choice to also deny licenses to straight couples was because “I didn’t want to discriminate against anyone.”

According to Kentucky.com, Davis makes almost $80,000 a year and describes herself as an Apostolic Christian who goes to church three times a week. She also believes that all sexual activity outside of marriage is a sin, but she has not questioned couples about sin before giving them a marriage license.

Davis says she has no plans to resign.

“That leaves my deputies to deal with this,” she said. “If I resign it solves nothing and helps no one.”

U.S. District Judge David Bunning said he will probably issue a decision the week of Aug. 11.

In Kentucky, it’s a Class A misdemeanor — first-degree official misconduct — for elected officials to refuse to perform the duties of their office.

Watch Kim Davis exit the courthouse accompanied by her attorneys on Monday, below:

