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struggle4progress

(118,273 posts)
Fri Sep 25, 2015, 04:55 PM Sep 2015

Kim Davis' Gay Friend Speaks Out

Posted: 09/24/2015 02:30 PM EDT
Curtis M. Wong

... Dallas Black of Morehead, Kentucky told The Daily Beast's Katie Zavadski that he's known Davis his whole life. He and the now infamous clerk became particularly close after she helped him with paperwork at the Rowan County clerk's office after his mother died ...

"I really want to believe that the kind, sweet person who was there when my mom passed away is still there," he said. "I was friends with Kim in the past, but I don’t know this woman I've been seeing."

Black said he'd been tolerant of Davis's opposition to same-sex marriage in the past, noting that members of his family feel similarly. He said he believes Davis is taking her views "to the extreme," making Morehead, where the Rowan County clerk's offices are located, seem like a "backwoods" laughingstock in the process. Home to Morehead State University, the town is known statewide for its progressive views, he said.

"Kim Davis has become the face of Morehead, and that’s not the face we want to portray," he said. "She made us feel like our home was invaded by strangers, and she made us strangers to it" ...


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kim-davis-gay-friend_56042cc5e4b08820d91bf51b

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closeupready

(29,503 posts)
4. I hope she reads this, reflects, and feels shame about her irresponsible behavior.
Fri Sep 25, 2015, 05:11 PM
Sep 2015

But you never can tell if someone has changed and no longer cares what others think.

irisblue

(32,961 posts)
5. I cannot imagine letting anyone calling me Kim Davis' gay friend
Fri Sep 25, 2015, 05:42 PM
Sep 2015

the shame would be too much to bear. How could a "friend" treat a "friend" like that?

surrealAmerican

(11,360 posts)
7. If she really was a decent person before she became ...
Fri Sep 25, 2015, 06:28 PM
Sep 2015

... a hateful fundy, that's just sad. I feel sorry for the people, like this writer, who knew her then.

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