Josh Duggar Employer Family Research Council To Honor Anti-Gay Clerk Kim Davis

Rowan County, Kentucky, clerk Kim Davis who made headlines after opting to spend five-days in jail instead of issuing marriage licenses to gay couples, is being honored Family Research Council, Josh Duggar's former employer.

FRC is set to award the 'Cost of Discipleship' to Davis at the Values Voter Summit later this month, Advocate reports.

"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," the council's president reportedly said.

FRC, which espouses traditional and conservative family values, came under media glare after its executive Josh Duggar confessed to abusing minors. Later Duggar's name surfaced in leaked data of Ashley Madison hack, followed by confession that he had cheated on his wife. A porn star later claimed she had sex with Duggar.

News of recognition by the FRC comes amidst yet another of Davis' rejected appeal to delay issuing licenses to same-sex couples.

According to Yahoo News, Davis tried to persuade the Sixth Circuit US Court of Appeals to delay an order mandating her to issue licenses. Davis was dragged to court by American Civil Liberties Union after she defied a Supreme Court order that allowed marriage of same-sex couples. Her refusal to comply had seen her serve a jail term.

In her latest bid to delay issuing licenses, Davis' counsel argued that because her deputies had issued licenses to the aggrieved couples during her absence, she should be not be made to issue additional licenses while the case is pending. The court rejected the appeal.