Kim Davis tried to get the Supreme Court to stop marriage equality. They just shut her down.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : "Today, the Supreme Court affirmed what we all know: marriage equality is the law of the land," said Lambda Legal CEO Kevin Jennings in a statement.
47% : Her appeal asked the Court to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 Supreme Court decision that legalized marriage equality in all 50 states.
43% : While her appeal received significant media attention, legal experts believed it was a poor vehicle to overturn marriage equality, if the Court is looking to do so at all.
42% : " Davis was a county clerk in Rowan County, Kentucky, in 2015 when she refused to give a marriage license to a same-sex couple, citing her religious beliefs.
42% : Even if the Supreme Court had taken the case, Chris Geidner, the gay publisher and author of Law Dork, told LGBTQ Nation in January that he didn't think a case like Davis' would provide sufficient legal reasoning to overturn same-sex marriage entirely.
40% : 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.
39% : Even Bill Powell, the lawyer representing the same-sex couple in Davis' case, was optimistic the Supreme Court would not hear her case.
37% : Former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis's mugshot | Rowan County Sheriff's office The Supreme Court will not hear Kim Davis' latest appeal in her case about marriage equality.
36% : Rather, he said that a successful religious freedom or free speech challenge to Obergefell would do other "bad things," like hollow out civil protections or public accommodations for same-sex couples, essentially inconveniencing or endangering them, but not outright denying them the right to a marriage license.
11% : " 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."

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