Clerk Kim Davis of Rowan County, Kentucky made news this year when she was thrown in jail for refusing to sign marriage licences for same-sex couples.
Davis drew mixed reaction from the public because of her actions—some supporting her for her uncompromising defence of religious freedom while some bashing her for defying a Supreme Court ruling. If she had to go through all of it again, Davis said she would not hesitate to stand up for her faith once again.
"No one would ever have remembered a county clerk that just said, 'Even though I don't agree with it, it's okay. I'll do it,'" Davistold the Associated Press. "If I could be remembered for one thing, it's that I was not afraid to not compromise myself."
Davis described it as "a very emotional and a very real situation to all people." She said merely talking about one's faith is "going to make anybody believe anything," so she decided to take a stand by not affixing her signature to same-sex marriage licences, even though it would invoke the ire of the LGBT community.
"It makes me uncomfortable to hear people using God... to justify their bigotry," said 39-year-old David Moore, who is now married to David Ermold. They both sued Davis in federal court. "I don't' see how that makes her a victim or a hero. She really just had a job to do, and she just needs to do her job."
Because of her stand, people scrutinised Davis' personal life and discovered that she had married three times. People slammed Davis as a hypocrite, but the county clerk does not see it that way.
"How ironic that God would use a person like me, who failed so miserably at marriage in the world, to defend it now," Davis said. "The Lord picks the unlikely source to convey the message."
Davis even mulled the possibility of her running for higher office given the media mileage she has received this year, but she believes that a politician's life is not for her.
"If I were a politician, I would probably jump on that and grab it and growl. But I'm not a politician," she said. "I very much enjoy my job."
