Watch a clerk defy a Supreme Court order and still refuse to issue a marriage license to a gay couple

A defiant county clerk in Kentucky has again refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples despite a ruling from the US Supreme Court mandating that it be done.

On Tuesday morning, as Rowan County clerk Kim Davis' office opened, two couples were denied licenses.

A deputy clerk told April Miller and Karen Roberts, who walked into the office trailed by dozens of television cameras, that no licenses would be issued and refused to make Davis available.

A second couple, David Moore and David Ermold, rejected a fourth time, are demanding to speak with Davis.

Ermold shouted: "Tell her to come out and face the people she's discriminating against."

The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to intervene in the case, leaving Davis no legal grounds to refuse to grant licenses to gay couples. A district judge could now hold her in contempt, which can carry steep fines or jail time.

Davis said she was acting "under God's authority" in refusing to issue marriage licenses. The below video appears to show her talking to a couple denied a license.

The court rejected Davis' last-ditch appeal for a delay in her case Monday.

Davis stopped issuing licenses the day the US Supreme Court legalized gay marriage. A federal judge ordered her to issue them, and an appeals court upheld that decision. Still, she has turned away couples again and again.