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.
I wish him much luck. Aside from Trump and his cabal of criminals, Kim Davis is one of the most loathsome people to make national news in recent years. She doesn't deserve to receive a taxpayer funded salary when she outright refuses to obey the law due to her sincerely held religious beliefs. She needs to go away and die in a fire.
ReplyDeleteI would dearly love to see a stricken look on this woman's face if she lost, but in a way, this situation - assuming the man decides to run - is going to be a win-win situation for her. If she wins the election, she will see it as a sign what she did was right and start doing it again.
ReplyDeleteIf she loses, she will still be able to make a good living by going on a speaking tour to scream about the vile, evil gays having somehow stolen the election and destroyed her comfy life. She will be able to scream about the need to eliminate all those same-sex lovers as a favor to her god.
Talk about evil! Geez.
David Ermold's name should be added to your headline -
ReplyDeleteWe are a country of laws. PERIOD. That they are not to your liking, get the eff over it. If you don't want to do your JOB then hand it over to someone who will.
ReplyDeleteOf course, that's all changing now, and absolutely NONE of this is biblical.
All he has to campaign on is "I'll do my job."
ReplyDelete"I'll do the job you elected me to do."
Because she decided what parts of her job she would do and what parts she wouldn't do. That's not how government service works. You also don't choose what citizens you serve and which ones you don't. What next? I don't serve Jews? I don't serve Blacks? There's no end to the way the fundamentalists justify their discrimination.
Yeah, I hope he runs and I hope he beats her ass.
"I"ll do my job!"
(Deadbeat Davis - pulling a paycheck for sitting on her ass, doing nothing.)
No he needs to run on I'll follow the LAW.
DeleteAccording to her she is doing her job.
I am so sick of fundamentalist Christians imposing THEIR religious beliefs on everyone else, whether those are Jews, Hindu, Muslims or Atheists. We do NOT have a state-sanctioned religion and this nation was NOT formed as a "Christian nation". Laws are independent of religion and should apply to everyone equally no matter what their belief system. In the position of Clerk, Kim Davis is supposed to enforce the laws, not create her own version of what's acceptable to her. If Davis' "sincerely held beliefs" (I hate that phrase) are against gay marriage then great. Don't marry a woman Kim. But her personal beliefs don't mean that she gets to tell other people what to do.
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