Kentucky clerk jailed for refusing to sign gay ‘marriage’ licenses runs for re-election
The Kentucky woman who became famous for refusing to sign homosexual “marriage” licenses and spent nearly a week in jail for her Christian convictions has officially registered for re-election. Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis announced in November that she would run for a second term, but this time as a Republican. She switched parties after her confrontation with the court system over same-sex “marriage.” After the U.S. Supreme Court ’s 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision imposed homosexual “marriage” nationwide, Davis refused to sign county-issued licenses. She said that as a Christian, she believed marriage was exclusively the union of one woman and one man. “It’s a Heaven or Hell decision,” Davis asserted . While she said she has “no animosity toward anyone,” she refused to violate “marriage and God’s Word.” Even after U.S. District Court Judge David Bunning ordered her to sanction same-sex “marriage” with her signature, she refused because of her sincerely-hel