Jennifer Lawrence: County clerk Kim Davis 'makes me embarrassed to be from Kentucky'

Jennifer Lawrence took a shot at Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who famously refused to grant same-sex marriage licenses due to her religious beliefs, in the current issue of Vogue.

"Don't even say her name in this house," the Kentucky-raised actress told the Vogue reporter in a wide-ranging interview. Lawrence calls Davis the “lady who makes me embarrassed to be from Kentucky."

Lawrence's words recall those of another Southern-born celebrity who publicly leaned left: Natalie Maines, singer for the Dixie Chicks, who told a London audience in 2003 that her band was "ashamed that the president of the United States is from Texas." Supporters of then-President George W. Bush reacted by boycotting the Dixie Chicks' shows and burning their CDs.

Lawrence, whose Vogue interview has been traveling around the Internet today, hasn't yet come in for a similar shellacking, but she certainly didn't leave potential critics with a lack of material in her interview. Following her comment about Davis, Lawrence spoke of "all those people holding their crucifixes, which may as well be pitchforks, thinking they’re fighting the good fight. I grew up in Kentucky. I know how they are.”

She also noted: "I was raised a Republican, but I just can’t imagine supporting a party that doesn’t support women’s basic rights. It’s 2015 and gay people can get married and we think that we’ve come so far, so, yay! But have we? I don’t want to stay quiet about that stuff.”

Lawrence will appear in the final installment of "The Hunger Games" later this month and will then surface as the star of "Joy," David O. Russell's biopic of Long Island entrepreneur Joy Mangano, in December.