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Local Man Marrying LGBTQ+ Couples for Free as Concerns Grow over Future of Marriage Equality
Kim Davis seeks to overturn the landmark 2015 ruling and avoid $360,000 in damages by invoking First Amendment religious rights, with the Supreme Court unlikely to hear the case this fall.
- On August 13, 2025, former Kentucky clerk Kim Davis submitted a petition scheduled for the Supreme Court's long conference to overturn same-sex marriage legalization.
- This petition aims to overturn the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision, which guaranteed marriage equality under the Fourteenth Amendment, though experts doubt the court will hear it.
- Davis refused to issue licenses to same-sex couples, leading to a civil suit and her appeal claiming First Amendment protection against liability for violating marriage rights.
- Advocates like Scott Bucci and Congresswoman Becca Balint condemned the appeal, with Balint stating, “OF COURSE, IT’S DEVASTATING THAT WE’RE EVEN HAVING THIS CONVERSATION.”
- Because the Court accepts less than 1 percent of petitions, the appeal's low likelihood of success suggests marriage protections currently remain secure despite ongoing legal challenges.
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Homosexual marriage in the United States, whose right was extended 10 years ago across the country, may have the days counted if the Supreme Court gives the right to an official who once refused for religious reasons to issue marriage leave to a gay couple, and who was sentenced to a considerable fine for it, in addition to six days in prison for contempt. Kim Davis’ case, who in 2015 was secretary of Rowan County (Kentucky), had some continuato…
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Why the Supreme Court is unlikely to take up the legal challenge to gay marriage
The Supreme Court received a petition last month seeking to overturn its 2015 decision legalizing gay marriage nationwide, but the case is unlikely to be heard by the nine justices. Former Kentucky clerk Kim Davis petitioned the high court in…
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