Hallelujah! She's no longer a Democrat.
The Democratic Party won't have embattled Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis to weigh it down anymore:
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.
She made the announcement while visiting the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., where she is being given a "
Cost of Discipleship Award:"
“We are pleased to announce that Kim Davis will be honored at this year's Values Voter Summit. After meeting with her last week, I can tell you that Kim Davis wasn’t looking for this fight, but she is not running from it either. What militant secularists are almost certainly afraid of is what is coming to pass: courage is breeding courage. When other people might have cowered in fear, Kim took a stand. And today, millions of Americans stand with her and for the religious freedom upon which our nation was founded.
“Far from the media's portrayal, Kim isn't trying to impose her views on anyone, she is simply asking that her orthodox religious views be accommodated.
Keep reading to see what else Davis is up to.
Not surprisingly, she has already signed a deal with a Christian publisher:
Sources are saying that Kim Davis, the Rowan County clerk who made headlines for refusing same-sex couples marriage licenses, has signed a seven-figure book deal with Forever Faith publishing and her memoir I’m a Survivor will be released just in time for Christmas.
It’s being reported that up to a dozen publishing houses were involved in a bidding war for Kim’s debut memoir and that she had turned down even bigger money deals to sign with a Christian-based publisher.