SAME SEX MARRIAGE KENTUCKY CLERK TO BE RELEASED -

The attorney for Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who was jailed last week for refusing to grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples, has been ordered released, her attorney, Roger Gannam,

Earlier Tuesday, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Davis should be given another government job, because those licenses “have to be issued” under the law.

“People have a right to practice their religion,” Christie said on “Fox and Friends” Tuesday morning. “Now, I’ve said what I would do with this woman is to move her to another job where this is not an objection for her. Because you have to follow the law — and the law has to be these licenses have to be issued.”

Davis, a clerk in Rowan County, Ky., was sent to jail Thursday for refusing to comply with several court orders to issue marriage licenses to gay couples following the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in June. Her lawyers have appealed, saying Davis has a right to exercise her “religious conviction.”

Kim Davis (Photo: Carter County Detention Center via AP)

“I think we should give her an option to do another job where her religious concerns are not going to be put into the cross hairs on this. So we have to have respect for people, but the government also has to function,” Christie said, adding that fellow 2016 Republican candidates shouldn’t “play politics” with the case.

Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz would seem to disagree.

The GOP hopefuls are both are heading to Kentucky Tuesday to meet with Davis. Huckabee, a former Baptist minister, also plans to hold an afternoon rally for Davis outside the Carter County Detention Center, where she is being held.

On Sunday, Huckabee likened the Supreme Court decision to “judicial tyranny.”

“What we’ve seen here is the overreach of the judiciary,” Huckabee said on ABC’s “This Week.” “This, if allowed to stand without any congressional approval, without any kind of enabling legislation, is what [President Thomas] Jefferson warned us about. That’s judicial tyranny.”

Last week, Cruz called Davis’ jailing “an outrage.”

“For the first time, we’re seeing a Christian thrown in jail for standing up for her faith,” Cruz told Fox News’ Megyn Kelly. “I’ll tell you, I stand with Kim Davis unequivocally. I stand with her or anyone else the government is trying to persecute for standing up for their faith.”