Kentucky County Clerk Kim Davis is set to re-run for election in 2018, despite her extreme opposition to LGBT rights and being put behind bars for contempt of court.
Davis refused to issue marriage licenses to gay couples when she operated as a county clerk in 2015, but says she intends to retain her seat as Rowan County Clerk in next year’s elections.
The task might have just got much tougher, however, after one of the men she denied a license to, David Ermold, considers standing against her in the race.
After she was sent to jail for six days for refusing a federal order to issue same-sex marriage certificates, Davis became a staunch anti-gay marriage campaigner.
The Apostolic Christian has said that she refused to issue the licenses because same-sex marriage goes against her beliefs.
Now Ermold wants to stop her.
No Democrat has yet put their name forward to oppose the Republican right-winger.
“If Kim Davis was reelected in that position without an appropriate fight, I’d probably regret it for the rest of my life,” Ermold, an English professor, told WKU Public Radio.
I love everything about this, and after Virginia elected a transgender woman during Tuesday's election, I think that the time is right for this kind of a challenge.
And would it not be perfect for Kim Davis to lose her reelection bid to the very people who she discriminated against?
Now THAT would be schadenfreude.
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