Supreme Court won't consider challenge to overturn same-sex marriage ruling

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : After the high court upheld the right for homosexuals to marry in 2015, Ms. Davis, as clerk for Rowan County, Kentucky, refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples so as not to violate her Christian faith and state law, which at the time still recognized marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
43% : The court rejected without comment a request from Kim Davis, a former county clerk from Kentucky who refused to sign off on same-sex marriage licenses more than a decade ago.
43% : The doctrine was used for decades to support Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case that gave women a national right to abortion.
43% : The justices overturned that landmark decision in 2022, returning jurisdiction over abortion to the states.
42% : The Supreme Court announced Monday it will not consider a request to overturn its 2015 landmark decision legalizing same-sex marriage.
42% : Liberty Counsel, the evangelical ministry representing Ms. Davis, had pointed to the abortion precedent in supporting her request to overturn same-sex marriage.
42% : She spent six days in jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
36% : Ms. Davis petitioned the high court over the summer to analyze the "legal fiction of substantive due process" in a move to strike down Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 case in which the justices determined that homosexuals have a right to marry.

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