Three years after Kentucky clerk Kim Davis was in the news for denying same-sex couples marriage licenses, a New York town clerk similarly cited religious beliefs when she discriminated against Dylan Toften and Thomas Hurd and refused to grant them a license. The clerk apologized this month.

In late January, Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin’s attorneys filed legal documents arguing that the state should not have to pay nearly $225,000 in legal fees that accrued during former Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis’ court battle over her refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

Americans United warned government officials years ago to keep Kim Davis at arm’s length. Far from being a hero, she’s just a plain old lawbreaker, an extremist who decided that her religion gave her the right to use a taxpayer-funded position to deny others rights that were affirmed by the highest court in the land.