Kim Davis, the county clerk in Kentucky who defied a court order to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, will attend President Barack Obama's final State of the Union address Tuesday night, The Washington Examiner reports.
The Family Research Council, a socially conservative Christian group that opposes same-sex marriage, secured Davis' spot in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol.
Source confirms to @thehill that Kim Davis will attend Obama's final #SOTU tomorrow: https://t.co/aWcytNj60A— Jesse Byrnes (@jessebyrnes) January 12, 2016
Jim Obergefell, the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit that resulted in the recognition of the right to same-sex marriage in the United States, will attend the State of the Union as a guest of First Lady Michelle Obama.
This will not be the first high-profile event Davis will attend in Washington, D.C. Last year, she met privately with Pope Francis in the nation's capital.