"Over 820,000 married same-sex couples live in the United States today, according to the latest figures from the UCLA Williams Institute. That's over 1.6 million queer people falling in love and tying the knot. When you add the nearly 300,000 children being raised by married same-sex couples today, along with countless parents, grandparents, grown children, and other loved ones, that means many millions of people are directly touched by marriage equality."
"Not surprisingly, fear and apprehension arose with the news that Kim Davis, the outlier former Rowan County Kentucky clerk who, 10 years ago, refused to marry same-sex couples after the U.S. Supreme Court made marriage equality the law of the land, had asked the Supreme Court to hear her last-ditch appeal in a lawsuit she has been fighting for over a decade."
"The vast majority of legal observers believe it highly unlikely that the U.S. Supreme Court will take her case. One reason is that, in the course of the litigation, Davis has already lost three times at the Sixth Circuit Federal Court of Appeal, and, five years ago, the Supreme Court rejected a request for it to hear similar issues in her case."
Over 820,000 married same-sex couples live in the United States, representing over 1.6 million queer people, with nearly 300,000 children being raised by married same-sex couples. Many millions of people are directly affected by marriage equality, and countless LGBTIQ+ people may wish to marry or take pride in having equal constitutional marriage rights. Former Rowan County clerk Kim Davis asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear her appeal after refusing to marry same-sex couples and requested that the Court overturn Obergefell. Davis claims her conservative Christian beliefs should have allowed refusal, but she has lost multiple appeals and the Court previously declined similar requests.
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