US Supreme Court rejects bid to overturn same-sex marriage right nationwide

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : It declared that the Constitution's guarantees of due process and equal protection under the law meant states cannot ban same-sex marriages.
44% : That ruling raised the hopes of many conservatives and Republicans who opposed Obergefell that the court would consider reversing the same-sex marriage right as well.
44% : U.S. District Judge David Bunning in 2022 rejected the assertion by Davis that she is protected from liability in the case because issuing the marriage license to a same-sex couple would violate her constitutionally protected religious beliefs.
42% : Davis has said same-sex marriage conflicts with her religious beliefs as an Apostolic Christian. Davis appealed after lower courts rejected her claim that the US Constitution's First Amendment right to free exercise of religion shields her from liability in the case.
40% : " Overturning Obergefell would allow states once again to pass laws against same-sex marriage.
40% : In her appeal to the top U.S. judicial body, lawyers for Davis said that the same-sex marriage right - like the now-overturned right to abortion - is grounded in what they called the "legal fiction" of a principle called "substantive due process" that the Supreme Court has in decisions over decades said protects an array of personal freedoms.
39% : Davis was ordered to pay more than $360,000 in damages and legal fees for violating a same-sex couple's right to marry.
36% : It declared that the Constitution's guarantees of due process and equal protection under the law meant states cannot ban same-sex marriages The US Supreme Court rejected on Monday a bid by a former Kentucky county official to overturn its landmark 2015 ruling legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide, as the justices steered clear of the contentious case some 3-1/2 years after its conservative majority reversed abortion rights.
34% : In 2022, the court overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that had recognized a woman's constitutional right to abortion and legalized the procedure nationwide.
10% : In an opinion accompanying that action, Thomas, joined by Alito, wrote that the same-sex marriage ruling continues to have "ruinous consequences" for religious liberty.

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