Supreme Court declines challenge to same-sex marriage decision

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined a hearing to overturn its 2015 decision to impose same-sex marriage on all fifty US states.

That controversial decision overturned democratically passed state laws and federal legislation.

Kim Davis, a former county clerk in Kentucky, petitioned the Court to reconsider the 2015 Obergefell ruling, and also hear her case 10 years after she made headlines for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

She had served multiple days in jail for contempt of court for violating a judicial order to issue the marriage licenses and was ordered to pay more than $360,000 in damages and legal fees for violating a same-sex couples’ right to marry.

Mary Rice Hasson of the Ethics and Public Policy Center said the case was not the right vehicle to reconsider the Obergefell decision.

The Iona Institute
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