NASHVILLE — Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis, who in 2015 spent six days in jail for her refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples because of her conservative Christian beliefs, is now telling her side of the story — the side she says the media refuses to tell.
“The only mean or negative thing I ever said to a same-sex couple who wanted a marriage license was ‘No,'” Davis told The Christian Post at the National Religious Broadcasters conference. “Instantly, the mainstream media painted an unfair picture of me as a terrible person — and most of the time, they didn’t even talk to me.”
Davis is setting the record straight in her new memoir, Under God’s Authority: The Kim Davis Story. Once upon a time, she said, she wasn’t a “very nice person,” living an “ungodly life” that contradicted the faith she now professes. Thankfully, she said, God redeemed her story — and used her past mistakes to bring glory to Himself.
“I want people to understand that my story is not so much about all of the events that happened from June of 2015 up until now, but it’s a redemptive story, a story of God’s love and grace transforming someone who was completely broken,” she said. “He changed the desires of my heart and changed the way I think. I want people to know that God is able to do that.”
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