Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis Meets Opponent

Описание: (6 Dec 2017) David Ermold returned to the Rowan County courthouse Wednesday, nearly two years after Clerk Kim Davis refused to give him a marriage license because he was gay.
Only this time, he did not want a license. He wants Davis' job.
He was surprised to meet and sit with Davis during the filing to run for county clerk, hoping to challenge the woman who two years ago told him "God's authority" prohibited her from complying with a U.S. Supreme Court decision that effectively legalized gay marriage nationwide.
Ermold and others sued her, and Davis would spend five days in jail for disobeying a federal judge's order. She emerged to a rapturous rally on the jailhouse lawn, arm-in-arm with a Republican presidential candidate as a newly crowned martyr for some conservatives.
Last month, Davis announced she would run for re-election and face voters for the first time since refusing to issue marriage licenses.
Three other people have also filed to run against her, including Elwood Caudill Jr., who lost to Davis by just 23 votes in the 2014 Democratic primary.
Wednesday, Ermold and his husband sat across a desk from Davis as they filed his paperwork to run for office. Davis smiled and welcomed them, chatting with them about the state retirement system and the upcoming Christmas holiday.
She made sure Ermold had all of his paperwork and signatures to file for office, softly humming the old hymn "Jesus Paid It All" as her fingers clacked across a keyboard.
When it was over, she stood and shook hands with Ermold, telling him: "May the best candidate win."
"It'll be a good one, I'm sure," Davis told reporters about the election. Asked if she thought she deserved to be re-elected, Davis said: "That will be up to the people. I think I do a good job."
Davis doesn't object to issuing marriage licenses now that the state Legislature has changed the law so her name is not on the license.
She has been in the clerk's office for nearly three decades, most of that time working for her mother until she retired. Davis was elected in 2014 as a Democrat.
But after same-sex marriage became legal, the state's then-Democratic governor refused to issue an executive order to remove the names of clerks from marriage licenses.
Davis said she felt betrayed by her party and switched her registration to Republican

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