Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis was jailed Thursday after she refused to comply with U.S. District Judge David Bunning's order.

Five deputy clerks in the county office have agreed to issue marriage licenses and comply with the judge's ruling. The sixth clerk, Davis' son, refused.

The defiant Kentucky clerk told the judge she can't comply with an order to issue marriage licenses to gay couples because it would violate her conscience.

Davis testified for about 20 minutes and was very emotional. She talked about when she became a Christian.

"You can't be separated from something that's in your heart and in your soul," she told the judge.

The judge who jailed a Kentucky clerk who refuses to issue marriage licenses says he didn't make the decision lightly.

In court on Thursday, U.S. District Judge David Bunning said he doesn't think Rowan County clerk Kim Davis is combative. She has refused to issues licenses because of her religious beliefs about gay marriage.

But, Bunning said, "Her good faith belief is simply not a viable defense."

Bunning also spoke of his own religious beliefs. But he said that the oath he took, and the oath Davis took, supersedes those beliefs.

Bunning also said that it's not his job or the court's job to write laws or make changes. But he noted that the legislative and executive branches can do so.

After she was jailed, hundreds of people outside the courthouse started chanting and screaming, "Love won! Love won!"

One of the plaintiffs in the gay marriage case in Kentucky testified that she actually voted for the clerk who has refused to hand out marriage licenses.

April Miller, a professor at Morehead State, said the past two months have been pretty demoralizing for her and her partner. She was asked during a court hearing Thursday whether a license would validate her marriage.

"Yeah, that's what marriage is about - to show other people you are in a long-term relationship," she said. "It is legitimized."

She says when she went to get a license Tuesday, a deputy clerk told her she could go to a different county. Miller says that was kind of saying "we don't want gays or lesbians here. We don't think you are valuable."

Davis said she will not accept a compromise that would let her out of jail. She refuses to promise not to interfere while the deputy clerks hand out licenses.