Kentucky clerk Kim Davis gave her first nationally televised interview on Good Morning America yesterday, where she tried making the case that she’s not a homophobe because, as she put it, “I have friends who are gay and lesbian.”
“They know where I stand,” Davis claimed. “We don’t agree on the issue and we’re okay because we respect each other.”
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The sleuths over at The Daily Beast decided to do some digging. They launched a campaign in search of Davis’ alleged same-sex loving friends.
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First, they reached out to Davis directly, but emails sent to her government account went unanswered.
Next, they contacted Davis’ lawyers at The Liberty Counsel. Spokeswoman Charla Bansley said she couldn’t name any of Davis’ alleged gay friends, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the thrice-divorced clerk is lying.
“I don’t think she would lie,” Bansley said. “Someone who goes to jail for her conscience wouldn’t lie about that.”
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The Daily Beast then tracked down Davis’ first husband, Dwain Wallace, to ask if she had any gay friends back when they were together.
“I wouldn’t have a clue, to be honest,” he replied.
Neighbors of Davis were also unable to confirm whether she had any gay friends. Neither was Brian Mason, the deputy clerk who’s been issuing marriage licenses in Davis’ stead, though he quite professionally said he doesn’t “keep up with her personal life.”
The only person who seemed to believe Davis’ claim was, oddly enough, a lesbian from Morehead, KY named Carmen Wampler-Collins who says her niece, who is also a lesbian, knows the Davis family.
“I grew up in Morehead and it’s fairly common to have people in your life say they love you and still hold deep opposition to you being in a same-sex relationship,” Wampler-Collins said. “It’s a small town and many people just feel it’s best to get along and not make waves, even if they face discrimination.”
Even so, that hardly counts as a friendship.
The LGBT advocacy group Kentucky Equality put out a call for anyone gay people who may be friends with Davis to please contact them.
So far, nobody has.
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Lucy Perez
Imaginary friends, like the imaginary dude in the sky that smites everyone…
billeetee
Kim Davis’s Gay Friends (yea sure chuckle, giggle) all wisely left Kentucky a long time ago for a world that offered them SO MUCH more!
Kevin J Desmond
They’re living on Fantasy Island
Charles Schultz
They are invisible
Cam
Just like Huckabee claimed he had gay friends, just like Palin claimed she had gay friends, just like Cruz, just like every other bigot who wants to lie and pretend they aren’t a bigot.
She doesn’t have any gay friends, she is a liar, an adulterous, and a person who handed her son a free job paid for by the taxpayers that probably violates nepotism laws.
Alan David
Is that like wheres Waldo
scotshot
Well she’s friends with a supernatural sky fairy so I guess she can have imaginary gay friends on Earth.
Luis H. Lopez
Lair adulteress hypocrite anti gay bigot and mentally unstable law breaker criminal !
Jon Michael
Just look at that face … look at that hair … look at those clothes … it’s perfectly obvious that she has NO GAY FRIENDS!!! No gay person would ever associate with anyone with this ugly a soul.
Bill Shepard Jr
Giving her the benefit of the doubt, they probably dropped her stupid ass because she denied their marriage licenses as well!
Billy Budd
The bitch has imaginary friends.
Brian JC Kneeland
She would not have gay friends – she would have been condemning them the whole time!
NateOcean
HypoChristian!
Paul V. Vitagliano
Newsflash: they’re just as imaginary as her “God”…
Chip Byas-Ortega
hibitual liar… she has no gay friends… look at her appearance..no gay with self respect even tho they hate her agenda would not let her appear in public like she does.. nope – get her a gay and fast!!!
Ladbrook
They are hanging out with David Duke’s black friends, I suspect. One big happy family!
Randy Bowling
Why in the world would any lgbt people be friends with her? If you can’t accept me for being me then why would you befriend them? Not very logical. I personally wouldn’t even want her as an acquaintance or, a friend of a friend.
Tony Minutella
Give gays some credit…who would hang out with this egghead???
David Harlem
Her alleged gay friends have all been nailed to fences by the OATH Keeps (really Nazi Storm Troopers).
Robert Paige
She has none all lies to cover her ass
Stephen Meeks
Only in her sick, demented mind
Michael Jarboe
I’m guessing she met then in jail.
Timothy Grover
They don’t want to fess up, they probably deny knowing her.
Deb Kerak
i wish a dragon fly would sew her mouth shut.
darian
I could careless IF she has gay friends or not. She wasn’t thinking about them when didn’t issue marriage licenses I doubt she’s thinking of them now.
I am however a bit unnerved by what seems like alot of effort and energy being put into finding them. If in fact they do exist how do you think they be perceived?
Michael Edmonds
They’re not hairdressers or stylists , or cosmetologists .
Don’t know where they are .
Maybe gettin it on with her Son
BlueDude
At best, living in a smallish hicktown, Kimmy MIGHT know OF someone who’s gay, via gossip. Hmm, I wonder if there’s even a gay hairdresser in Podunk, but, quite obviously, Kim wouldn’t go there anyway.
Robert Cella
Embarrassed ?
Robert Cella
And if she does have gay friends she wouldn’t dress like that. Tragic mess
Russell Dee
I don’t understand why there’s talk about putting the marriage licensing part of the Kentucky clerk’s job into receivership. They should just put her in jail and let the deputy clerk’s do the job without her interference.
Tim Troutman
To Kim Davis’s so called gay friends, where are you?
Diane Lyle
don’t feed into her b……st shes pathetic to say the least!!!!!! enough is enough now get that lawsuit filed!!!!! or wait not sure you can win it yet still pondering with it????? such a farce!!!!!!
Blake Latimer
Who cares she’s had her 15 minutes?
dvlaries
>>“I don’t think she would lie,” Bansley said. “Someone who goes to jail for her conscience wouldn’t lie about that.”<<
Probably not, if she went to jail for her 'conscience.' On the other hand, a little lying and four days in jail might be worth it if you're a pathetic, fat-ass middle-aged loser, and doing so would center you in a media-attention tornado, presidential wannabees rushing to your side…
Gary Hecklinger
That must have been prior to her being “washed clean” unbelievable!
Stu Hipwell
Oh please – she has NO gay friends ! Being a liar isn’t a far stretch from being a hypocrite!
Paul Castilonia
I’m Kim’s friend. I just think she’s a fucker for breaking the law and discriminating against the LGBTQ community…
Casey Këddington
3 little words… “filthy lying cunt!!!!
Maurice Padilla
Reruns of Will and Grace don’t count Kim!
Albert Ho
they don’t exist there i said it
David Junior
She can’t have gay friends no gay man would let her go around looking like that. ..
GG
Honey, those aren’t gay friends, they’re hangers.
Faye Denton
Gimmie a break ! She’s a simple liar. She doesn’t have gay friends and the whole country knows that. She breaks a lot of commandments and thinks nothing of it. She doesn’t recall that she’s not suppose to lie.
Tom Olenio
I imagine you would not find any straight people claiming her as a friend.
James Moya
acquaintances aren’t friends. Im sure she thinks that people lust after her beuaty too (*threw up)
Keith A Kucowski
Jay A. Scaramazzo
Still in the closet I am sure.
John Kuehnle
Lets move on…
Errol Semple
Imaginary.
Rudy Ruiz-Seavers
Here’s one.
John Malin
Most likely in the cemetary, having laughed themselves to death!
Adam Walder
if she really had any I’d think they’d be ashamed of it by now
Eugene Schnitger
as delusional as she is, maybe in her head…
Eric Herb
You can’t prove God exists but he does and he’s gay.
Ricky Cavazos
Another faker with imaginary “gay friends”.
David Schaffhauser
David Schaffhauser
She should have been stoned 3 husband’s ago according to the bible
Finrod
“Someone who goes to jail for her conscience wouldn’t lie about that.”
She lied three times when she took her marriage vows. She must have done some fancy lying when she got knocked up by husband #3 while in the process of dumping #1 and marrying #2. And she lies every day when she says that her petty hatreds and bigotry are the word of God.
June Fortner McPherson
This woman needs to be put in a mental institution. She also needs to be fired from her job since she continues to not do her job. It’s funny how she knows she’s been “forgiven” for her adultry and many divorces , so shouldn’t she be “forgiven” for giving out a simple marriage license. Someone should have refused to give her a marriage license after her first marriage. Just a mental case getting attention
lelandjr
I am. Right here, now.
Gene Dale Moore
they are imaginary
Bob Pattinson
Along with her god, her gay friends exist only in her imagination. Bigots are great liars.
David Mack
SHE DON’T Have any or FRIENDS ! ! !
Emery Biggar
They are in another state getting married
Jalone Hoffmann Haessig
hahaha what a laugh riot, if she had any gay friends I am betting she doesn’t anymore.
Tom Mchenry
They don’t exist. Simple. It is so telling that she (Staver & Co.) granted an interview with a “Christian” news anchor. Nothing wrong with that in theory but it is so clear thats she (again Staver & Co.) want to vet, weed and cull whom she speaks to. I am in agreement that news in itself should be fair and “unbiased”, but this makes the case that the person of interest is a sorry soul who is being made a posterchild for intolerance. The likes of her needs to vanish sooner than later. She is not the best of America to interview.
Octavio Roca
She must mean those Uncle Tom’s Cabin Republicans, though this sad redneck bitch probably is too trashy even for them.
Cory Maxwell
Ken Wan
She has friends?
msfrost
“I can’t be a bigot,some of my best friends are Jewish”. That didn’t work in the 1960’s it will not work now.
mykelb
In other words, Ms. Davis just doesn’t firebomb people, she just discriminates against them using her position in the government.
Hana Chan
well, if one of my friends said stuff like that about me or people like me, she wouldn’t be my friend anymore
Giancarlo85
SHE HAS A GAY FRIEND. Yes it is true. That gay friend refuses to even talk to her anymore lol!
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/24/kim-davis-s-one-gay-friend-is-angry.html
He said he doesn’t recognize who she is anymore.
Louis
I wish you people could be reported ive had it with you not posting my comments and identifying it as spam here over and over again.
Such unprofessionalism if it happens again you will hear from me I assure you.
Kim Davis has no gay friends and if she does they have no self respect or integrity as human beings period.
GayEGO
Kim Davis is messed up in her thinking as she claims it is God telling her these things but it sounds more like the Devil in her brain, she needs an exorcism. Based on that, what makes Kim Davis think she has gay friends, I don’t see them coming to her side.
GayEGO
@Giancarlo85: Now that is more like it, her past gay friend realizes that Kim Davis has been mislead by the Devil, not God.
GayEGO
@Bob Pattinson: Kim Davis thinks it is her God, but it is really the Devil in her brain, she needs an exorcism.
Nahald
Her gay “friends” went off and got married and didn’t invite her to the reception !