Kim Davis tried to get the Supreme Court to stop marriage equality. They just shut that down. - LGBTQ Nation

"Her latest appeal, filed this past summer, was widely considered a longshot by legal scholars. It asked the supreme Court to review her First Amendment argument to overturn a decision against her. Her lawyers at the hate group Liberty Counsel said that they also asked the Court to consider overturning Obergefell since it "did significant damage to the historic definition of marriage, to states rights, to religious freedom, and to the rule of law.""

"This is similar to an argument that Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito made in 2020 that the mere existence of married same-sex couples is a violation of Christians' religious freedom because seeing married same-sex couples encourages people to judge Christians "as bigots." (That opinion was delivered in the context of a different Kim Davis appeal). "Since Obergefell, parties have continually attempted to label people of good will as bigots merely for refusing to alter their religious beliefs in the wake of prevailing orthodoxy," Thomas wrote at the time."

"The Supreme Court will not hear Kim Davis' latest appeal in her case about marriage equality. Her appeal asked the Court to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 Supreme Court decision that legalized marriage equality in all 50 states. "The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied," the Court's order list says in a line about Davis' appeal. It doesn't explain why."

The Supreme Court denied Kim Davis's petition for a writ of certiorari and provided no explanation for the denial. Davis refused in 2015 to issue a marriage license to a same-sex couple as Rowan County clerk, citing religious beliefs. Over the past decade she has been sued, jailed briefly, lost at trial, and pursued multiple appeals. Her most recent petition sought First Amendment relief and also asked the Court to reconsider Obergefell v. Hodges, with her lawyers at Liberty Counsel arguing that Obergefell harmed marriage's historic definition, states' rights, religious freedom, and the rule of law. Legal scholars viewed the petition as a longshot.

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