Westboro Baptist Group Protests Ky. Clerk Kim Davis

Lana Bailey holds a placard on the steps of the federal building in protest of Rowan County clerk Kim Davis' arrival to attend a contempt of court hearing for her refusal to issue marriage certificates to same-sex couples, at the United States District Court in Ashland. | (Photo: Reuters/Chris Tilley)

The controversial extremist group Westboro Baptist Church has recently announced its plans to protest Kim Davis, a Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses over the summer.

The extremist group, which is known for controversial protests and hate speech, reportedly staged a protest recently near the Rowan County courthouse in Kentucky where Davis works.

Davis made national headlines this past summer for refusing to issue marriage licenses t o same-sex couples. She received criticism from some media outlets for admitting that she has been married four times.

The county clerk is a Apostalic Christian who converted to her faith in recent years.

"This woman wants to say that her sin isn't as grievous as the same-sex marriage sin," Shirley Phelps-Roper, a member of the controversial, unaffiliated Baptist church said it a statement. "It's all sin. It's all awful. But her sin enabled that sin. When you look up, and all the Christians have given over the moral high ground, what voice do they have left?"

The extremist group also took to social media to voice its opposition to Davis, who was jailed earlier this year for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses based on her Christian faith.

"That man that Kim Davis is living with, and calling her husband, IS NOT! Her husband is Dwain Wallace, who she married when she was 18-years-old," a press release from the group read, as reported by the local WPMT-TV media outlet.

"It does not matter how many years you pile on! It was adultery at the beginning, adultery in the middle and it is indeed adultery today!" the statement added.