The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a case challenging its landmark decision to legalize gay marriage nationwide.The challenge to the court's 2015 ruling came from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky clerk who refused to issue same-sex licenses after the court's Obergefell v. Hodges decision, which recognized a constitutional right to same-sex marriage.In the aftermath of her refusal, Davis was jailed for acting in contempt of court and lost her clerk re-election. A jury also ordered her to pay $360,000 to a couple who she refused to marry. Davis attempted to get out of paying this verdict by additionally requesting that the court assert that she has a First Amendment religious protection from liability for her actions.The court declined her petition without comment.Davis has long argued that religious liberties conflict with Obergefell."If ever there was a case of exceptional importance, the first individual in the Republic's history who was jailed for following her religious convictions regarding the historic definition of marriage, this should be it," she argued in her petition before the court.
What happens when they claim "Religious Freedom" what it is at the expense of other people's rights? Fox News wrote,
Davis's lawyers also hewed closely to language used by Justice Clarence Thomas in their appeal, who used a concurring opinion in 2022 to urge the court to "reconsider" gay marriage and other constitutional protections after it overturned Roe v. Wade.Even so, it takes four votes to get a case onto the docket — a somewhat heavy lift for the court. The decision also comes at a time when justices have agreed to review a number of politically charged cases in their upcoming term.
They will try again, and again, and again... they will keep pressing it until they win!
For a so-called Christian woman to stand on the anti-gay marriage soap box is hypocrisy considering she has been married and divorced and remarried to three men. All these cases are nothing more than people disliking gays and lesbians and transgender men and women. Churches wonder why attendance is down? According to former president Jimmy Carter there a no passages in the New Testament attributable to Jesus on the issue of same sex marriage. Some people need to hate someone and need to find something different about a person to make them a target of hate.
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