After being released from jail last week for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis returned to work Monday and announced that saying she will neither authorize or block such licenses from being issued by the deputies in her office.

The 49-year-old Rowan County clerk made national headlines for refusing to grant licenses to same-sex couples in light of the 2015 Supreme Court ruling that overturned the ban on gay marriage. After Davis was sued by local couples, Federal District Court Judge David L. Bunning ordered her to issue licenses. Both the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court then denied her request to delay the order while she filed for an appeal, reports the New York Times.

Still, Davis maintained that her Christian beliefs prevent her from supporting gay marriage. As a result, she was held in contempt of court and jailed on Sept. 3, for defying court orders by refusing to sign marriage licenses to couples in Rowan County. A judge then released her from jail five days later since the deputies were issuing the licenses.

Before returning to work Monday morning, Davis said at a news conference that she wants her name and title removed from the licenses currently being issued by her office. The defiant clerk also said she was being forced to choose between "my conscience or my freedom."

"Effective immediately, and until an accommodation is provided, by those with the authority to provide it, any marriage license issued by my office will not be issued or authorized by me," she said, NPR reports.

However, she said she would not stand in the way of her deputy clerks from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

"I love my deputy clerks and I hate that they have been caught in the middle. If any of them feels that they must issue an unauthorized license to avoid being thrown in jail, I understand their tough choice and I will take no action against them," Davis said. "Any unauthorized license that they issue will not have my name, my title or my authority on it. Instead, the license will state that they are issued pursuant to a federal court order."

After arriving to work, a lesbian couple from Lexington was granted official papers from her office. Their license had Davis' name removed and the words "pursuant to federal court order" added to it, reports NBC News. The governor and the county attorney, however, have deemed the document to be valid.