Kentucky clerk Kim Davis is officially facing an election challenge from the gay man she discriminated against.
Kim Davis made the news in 2015 after the US Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples had a constitutional right to marry.
The clerk for Rowan County, Kentucky, decided to ignore the ruling and subsequent demands from a string of state courts, in order to block the weddings of same-sex couples in the county.
But Davis – who has since become a cause célèbre among the anti-LGBT movement – may end up losing her job to one of the men she blocked from marrying.
David Ermold, who was filmed being denied a marriage license by Davis back in 2015, launched his campaign to become Rowan County clerk today, ahead of the election next year.
Davis, who was initially elected as a Democrat, had announced she plans to seek re-election as a Republican.
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But Ermold – who was eventually allowed to marry his partner by a deputy clerk in 2015 0 says Davis has proved herself unfit to hold the office, and will battle to stop her retaining the clerk’s position.
Speaking to AP, he said: “I think we need to deal with the circumstances and the consequences of what happened.
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