Talk show host Andy Cohen delivers brutal takedown of anti-gay marriage campaigner Kim Davis
Andy Cohen hosts Bravo’s late night talk show, Watch What Happens Live. (Getty)
Andy Cohen hosts Bravo's late night talk show, Watch What Happens Live. (Getty)
Late night talk show host Andy Cohen pulled no punches in his recent takedown of Kim Davis, the former county clerk who is trying to overturn same-sex marriage in the US.
In July, Kim Davis asked the US Supreme Court to asked the court to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges, the landmark 2015 case which ruled that same-sex marriage is a constitutional right. More than 800,000 LGBTQ+ couples have married in the US since it became legal.
Davis become known after denying a gay couple a marriage licence in Rowan County, Kentucky in 2015. Despite the Supreme Court ruling the same year, Davis claimed granting the licence would violate her Christian beliefs about marriage. She was jailed for five days for contempt of court for refusing to issue the licence.
Responding to the news about the Supreme Court being asked to consider overturning same-sex marriage, Cohen used a segment on Watch What Happens Live to address Davis directly.
Referring to her as “tonight’s jack hole,” Cohen delivered a brutal takedown. “Lady, you’ve been married four times to three different people, reportedly getting pregnant with husband number three, while still married to husband number one. And you want to lecture us on the sanctity of marriage?!”
But he wasn’t done there. “How about you take your bigoted, bump-it ass to therapy to figure out your relationship issues before you try to nuke our basic civil rights,” he added. Cohen then said, “Overturn this, lady,” while pointing his middle finger to the floor.
Newsweek reports that Davis was first married to Dwain Allen Wallace for a number of years between the 1980s and 1994. They also report that court documents show Davis gave birth to children from another man in 1994.
Davis was then married to Joe Davis between 1996 and 2006. A year after that ended she married Thomas McIntryre in 2007 for one year. She then remarried Joe Davis in 2009.
Newsweek reports Mat Staver, Davis’ lawyer, as saying at the time, “[Kim] made a lot of mistakes. She regrets many of the decisions that she made. And she loves the Lord, and she doesn’t want to be disobedient.”
As part of her petition to the Supreme Court last month, Davis is seeking $100,00 (£74,000) for emotional damages and $260,000 (now worth about £193,000) in legal fees. This relates to the compensation she was ordered to pay to the gay couple David Ermold and David Moore, who filmed the former clerk denying them their marriage licence.
Staver, said in July, that Obergefell was a “flawed opinion,” that “has produced disastrous results.” He added that until the Supreme Court revisits it, “Obergefell will continue to have ruinous consequences for religious liberty.”
