Kentucky clerk in gay marriage dispute switches to Republican Party

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

US | Fri Sep 25, 2015 12:59pm EDT

Kentucky clerk in gay marriage dispute switches to Republican Party

WASHINGTON | BY EMILY STEPHENSON

A county clerk in Kentucky who was briefly jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples said on Friday that she and her family have switched to the Republican Party because the Democrats no longer represented them.

Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, 50, who has said her beliefs as an Apostolic Christian prevent her from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, said they had changed parties last week. She was a long-time Democrat in eastern Kentucky.

"My husband and I had talked about it for quite a while and we came to the conclusion that the Democratic Party left us a long time ago, so why were we hanging on?" she told Reuters in an interview at a hotel in Washington, where she has traveled to be feted at a Family Research Council event later on Friday.

Davis also said she did not foresee a problem with the current marriage licenses being issued by her office in Morehead, Kentucky. Critics have charged the altered licenses, which removed her name and title and the name of the county, violate an order issued by U.S. District Judge David Bunning and raise questions about their validity.

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[City Lights]

1. Good riddance. nt

[Tom_Foolery]

2. Goodbye...

And I hope the donkey kicks you in the ass on your way out.

[whatthehey]

3. Credit where it's due. She's a theocrazy who can recognize where others of her ilk convene.

[brush]

4. She's not kidding anybody. She was only a Dem because her mother was . . .

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and through nepotism and name recognition, enabled her to get that job.

To win the election to county clerk she couldn't very well go against her mother's legacy.

With all those hard right stances of course she's a repug.

And you just know that she's been approached with opportunities from the right that "required" her being a registered republican. So much for principles huh, Kim?

[workinclasszero]

5. She joined the fascist (GOP) party?

No surprises and not one damn given.

[Gothmog]

6. This is great news

[LostOne4Ever]

7. Maybe there is a god afterall... nt

[jwirr]

8. Good.

[Takket]

9. wow, i'm shocked.........

for some reason her announcement reminds me of this

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[MohRokTah]

10. Better news than Boehner quitting! eom

[COLGATE4]

11. Don't let the door hit you in the ass

on the way out.

[cyberswede]

12. LOL - the Democratic Party left them...by moving to the right?

[WI_DEM]

13. Goodbye, bitch.

[NightWatcher]

14. Realized she was being a dick and needed to make it official

and legitimate.

[Maven]

15. Good. Fuck off.

[progressoid]

16. Thank Dog.

[nichomachus]

17. Probably the price she had to pay for Fuckabee's support n/t

[Chitown Kev]

18. Although I can never say that I actually loved Kim Davis

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But this seems appropriate

[hamsterjill]

19. Uh, yeah, she thinks she'll have a cabinet post in Huckabee's administration!

[lpbk2713]

20. Hooda guessed?

She only made it official. She's been a Dino all her miserable life.

[saturnsring]

21. YOUR BEHAVIOR labeled you a republican. dems didnt leave you you became a republican