MOREHEAD, Ky. — Kim Tabor sometimes wears a bright orange T-shirt bearing a slogan she’s found herself repeating for weeks: “Hello my name is not Kim Davis.”

Tabor works for the Rowan County Circuit Court Clerk, the office that handles court filings. Across the street is the Rowan County Clerk, where Kim Davis licenses marriages and has ignited the passions of religious conservatives around the world with her objections to same-sex marriage.

Tabor said people all over the country, confusing the two offices, have called the circuit court and asked for Kim. When she answers they start screaming.

The T-shirt keeps things light.

“Most people smile and laugh,” she said. “It has broken the tension in all of this chaos that’s going around.”

In the eastern Kentucky town at the center of the national conflict over same-sex marriage, screaming has too often replaced quiet conversation — or, more often, silence — on a subject that’s deeply personal to both sides. But a lot of people who will be here after the television trucks go away wonder what will happen once the furor fades.

Most of them know there’s more to the story than the high-decibel discussion that’s been playing out lately.