Kim Davis says it doesn't hurt when people call her 'Hitler,' just when they say 'God doesn't love you'

Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples and was jailed as a result, told ABC News that she's been called "a hypocrite," "a homophobe," and "Hitler," but "those names don't hurt me."

"What people say about me does not define who I am," a crying Davis told Paula Faris during an interview Monday in Morehead, Kentucky. "That's everybody's opinion and everybody's right." What does bother her, she said, is when people bring God into the equation: "What probably hurt me the worst is when someone tells me that my God does not love me or that my God is not happy with me, that I am a hypocrite of a Christian."

The rest of Faris' interview with Davis will air Tuesday on Good Morning America and The View.

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