US EditionSupreme Court weighs longshot appeal to overturn decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide
- On November 7, the U.S. Supreme Court will meet privately to consider whether to review Kim Davis's challenge to Obergefell v. Hodges, with oral arguments possible by June.
- After lower courts rejected her claims, Davis renewed appeals asking the high court to revisit Obergefell v. Hodges, arguing she should not be personally liable and citing harm to religious liberty.
- Jim Obergefell warned the precedent he helped secure is now on a precarious path and said several hundred thousand queer couples married since 2015 have experienced joy from their unions.
- If the Court overturns Obergefell, marriage authority would return to the states and existing unions would likely be grandfathered, though Ohio could quickly stop issuing same-sex marriage licenses under the Respect for Marriage Act.
- Amid concern about the conservative majority, justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito have signaled willingness to reexamine precedents, while a Gallup poll shows 68 support and analysts foresee narrow religious exemptions.
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The Conservative War On Marriage Equality Never Needed Kim Davis’s Supreme Court Case
On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to hear the case of someone you’d probably forgotten about until right now: Kim Davis, the former Kentucky county clerk who became a national news story in 2015 for her steadfast refusal to issue a marriage license to a same-sex couple. After a federal judge found her in contempt of court, she eventually chose to spend several days in jail rather than simply do her job, because for reactionaries who hold pub…
Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to same-sex marriage decision
Kim Davis (at right) is pictured here in 2015, when she served as Clerk of the Courts in Rowan County, Kentucky. Citing a sincere religious objection, Davis refused to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples in defiance of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling. / Credit: Ty Wright/Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 10, 2025 / 18:12 pm (CNA). The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined a request to overturn its 2015 decision to legalize same-sex…
Jim Obergefell celebrates U.S. Supreme Court’s rejection of Kim Davis’s marriage equality challenge
“I hope the Supreme Court halts further attempts by public officials to use their personal faith to deny others their civil and human rights,” the civil rights icon told The Advocate.
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