Scott Pelley: Ky. Clerk ‘the Last Front in a Losing Battle Against Same-Sex Marriage’

CBS’s Pelley: Clerk Going to Jail Possibly ‘the Last Front in a Losing Battle Against Same-Sex Marriage’ (NewsBusters)

At the top of Thursday’s CBS Evening News, anchor Scott Pelley proclaimed that the jailing of Rowan County, Kentucky Democratic Clerk Kim Davis “could be the last front in a losing battle against same-sex marriage” as she had been refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples since the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling legalizing gay marriage on June 26.

While the “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC all led with Davis being jailed and how she had cited her Christian faith in declining to issue licenses, they have yet to mention in any of their coverage in past three days that Davis is a Democrat.

Reporting from Kentucky for CBS, national correspondent Dean Reynolds explained that “supporters of Kim Davis engaged in a fire-and-brimstone rally” as “they tried to make the legal tide turn in her favor, but in the quiet of his courtroom, Judge David Bunning made it clear that he would not be swayed.”