After antigay Rowan County, Ky., clerk Kim Davis told Good Morning Americayesterday that she had gay and lesbian friends, including a couple to whom she denied a marriage license based on her religious convictions, equality advocates were all too eager to call her bluff.
"I can't put my name on a license that doesn't represent what God ordained marriage to be," Davis told GMA in Tuesday's interview. She explained her decision to refuse even her gay friends a marriage license, but would did not name the couple she considers friends. None of the couples who sued her or applied for licenses has claimed she is a friend.
The Daily Beast launched the search for Davis's rumored homosexual besties in a Tuesday night post aptly categorized "Anyone?"
"Just who are her gay and lesbian friends?" asked writer Katie Zavadski. "The Daily Beast sought answers."
But what The Daily Beast found doesn't bode well for Davis's ongoing claim of anti-Christian persecution. Here's Zavadski's summary:
The Liberty Counsel, which is providing Davis with legal representation, said Davis would not provide her gay friends' names to them.
"It's her life," spokeswoman Charla Bansley said. "I don't even know who they are."
When pressed about the existence of these friends, Bansley stood firm.
"I don't think she would lie," Bansley said. "Someone who goes to jail for her conscience wouldn't lie about that."
Other attempts to locate any of Davis's friends were also unsuccessful.
Dwain Wallace, Davis's first husband said she did not have any gay friends when they were married. As for now? "I wouldn't have a clue, to be honest."
Widening the search, The Kentucky Equality Federation on Tuesday posted an open call on its Facebook page for any self-identified LGBT friends of Davis's to come forward and speak with media.
In a new segment of the interview, aired this morning on The View, cohost and ABC News anchor Paula Faris asked Davis if she could ever see herself changing her position on same-sex marriage.
"On the word of God?" Davis replied. "No way. No. Never."
Faris pressed, she explained on The View, asking Davis if she would deny a marriage license to a gay or lesbian family member, including her grandchildren.
"She would not sign the license," Faris recounted. "She would deny her children, her grandchildren, she's already denied her friends."
In a lengthier portion of the discussion aired on The View this morning, Davis says she felt "sad" that same-sex couples who finally received marriage licenses couldn't affirm their "dignity" without "a piece of paper."