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Meet The Couple Kim Davis Refused To Marry Three Times

"The second half of our life is probably going to be the best half."

We've all come to recognize David Moore and his partner David Ermold, the same-sex couple who were repeatedly denied a marriage license by Rowan County clerk Kim Davis, thanks to an abundance of news media coverage of their failed attempts that began in July.

At first, the couple confronted Davis with no more than a handful of supporters and a camera phone. Over the next two months, the couple, who've been together 17 years, would return two more times.

Each time they returned, support for Moore and Ermold grew exponentially as their story spiraled into a national debate. On their final attempt to get a marriage license from Davis, they were flanked by hundreds of reporters and filmed on all sides by every major national news outlet.

"I was surprised that someone could treat another person that way. Treat them like a second class citizen," Moore says of the initial confrontation in a new interview with Now This.

The couple never set out to be public figures. When they went down to their county clerk's office to get married the first time, they simply wanted to show America that not everyone was following the Supreme Court's recent ruling.

"It was starting to sink in that things were not going to move along as quickly as I thought they might," said Moore. By their third visit to the office, he recalls feeling “irate” and “frustrated.” “I felt like I needed to stand up for my partner and myself," he said.

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When Kim Davis was jailed last week, Moore and Ermold waltzed into the Rowan County clerk's office and were immediately issued a marriage license by one of Davis' deputy clerks. They walked out of the office to cheers from supporters yelling "Love won!"

Said Ermold: "Ever since I was young, I can remember watching my aunt get married, watching my cousin get married. So it was crushing, I would say, as a young adult going through all that to think that I would never get married. And I’m kind of happy to think that the second half of our life is probably going to be the best half of life."

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