Noting that the Supreme Court refused to be baited into taking Kim Davis' (and Matt Staver's) attempt to nullify Obergefell and same-sex marriage, Chris Geidner says that a lesson we should take seriously from this event is:
"The Mat Stavers of the world — and he is certainly not alone — will not stop."
#SupremeCourt #Obergefell #SameSexMarriage #KimDavis #MattStaver #LibertyCounsel
https://www.lawdork.com/p/kim-davis-is-done-scotus-denies-marriage-review
For now, #SCOTUS has rebuffed efforts to overturn same-sex #marriage ruling!
#LBGTQ #USPolitics #USPoli #RoeVsWade #Obergefell
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-9.6973288?cmp=rss
At the very least, it means that there aren't 4 justices willing to revisit #Obergefell and give states the opportunity to ban #GayMarriage.
Who was the third vote to revisit Obergefell -- was it Roberts, who'd dissented in the original case?
#USPol
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/10/nx-s1-5604293/scotus-rejects-gay-marriage-appeal
While the Supreme Court has for now given no indication it would seek to overturn Obergefell, it has in other rulings in the last decade strengthened religious rights at the expense of LGBTQ rights, including by expanding the ability of people to seek exemptions from laws they object to because of their faith.
The Supreme Court has rejected a last-ditch effort by Kentucky clerk Kim Davis to overturn the 2015 ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. Davis appealed after being ordered to pay $100,000 damages for denying a marriage license, arguing Obergefell v. Hodges infringes on religious liberty. The court’s brief order signals it will not revisit or undermine the landmark 5-4 decision, which guarantees equal marriage rights under the Constitution. But with Justice Thomas calling to revisit Obergefell and the court’s shifting conservative lean, future challenges to LGBTQ+ rights remain possible. Will marriage equality withstand the evolving judicial landscape? More: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/supreme-court-declines-to-reconsider-same-sex-marriage-decision-0c01b1a5?st=Ph8oP1&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink #LGBTQ #MarriageEquality #SupremeCourt #Obergefell #LegalRights #ConservativeJudiciary
Breaking: The U.S. Supreme Court denied former county clerk Kim Davis's request for the justices to take up her longshot bid to overturn 2015's #Obergefell v. Hodges marriage equality decision.
🚨🚨 #SCOTUS rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide 🚨🚨
The #SupremeCourt on Monday rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized #SameSexMarriage nationwide.
The justices turned away an appeal from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to #SameSex couples after the high court’s 2015 ruling in #Obergefell v. Hodges.
#law #LGBTQ #HumanRights #love
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-50eb4ad421911696e742d8c4fb4962fd?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-10-Breaking+News
Among the cases the justices are expected to consider is a longshot appeal from Kim Davis, the fmr Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples following the court’s 2015 ruling in #Obergefell v. Hodges.
Davis is trying to get the court to overturn a lower court order for her to pay $360k in damages & attorney’s fees to a couple whom she denied a marriage license.
#SCOTUS could say as early as Monday what they’ll do.
#SCOTUS weighs longshot appeal to overturn decision legalizing #SameSexMarriage nationwide
A call to overturn the landmark Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide was on the agenda Friday for the justices’ closed-door conference.
#law #Obergefell #LGBTQ #discrimination #bigotry #HumanRights #ActivistCourt
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-kim-davis-cf8de49d51872e55eda46947f8ea8231
I am nervous. Scared even.
But part of me wants SCOTUS to hear Davis’ renewed objections so they will either decide and tell me to my face that I’m a second class citizen or reaffirm my marriage and tell that hateful dumb bitch to fuck off again.
Gift 🎁 article
#scotus #gay #equality #marriage #law #uslaw #uspol #samesex #obergefell #gift #giftarticle
"It would be the crowning triumph of Thomas’s vengeance-fueled career on the Supreme Court. For the rest of us, the country would swiftly and permanently become unrecognizable."
#SupremeCourt #ClarenceThomas #CivilRights #Obergefell #BirthControl
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"Conservatives have been gunning for substantive due process ever since the courts used it to help dismantle the institutions of American apartheid and extend civil liberties to heretofore largely disenfranchised groups. Gut it and everything is on the table—from Griswold and privacy to Obergefell and marriage equality to birth control to desegregation."
~ Charles Pierce
#SupremeCourt #ClarenceThomas #CivilRights #Obergefell #BirthControl
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https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a68115683/clarence-thomas-substantive-due-process/
Anyone want to bet against #SCOTUS overturning #Obergefell? It sure sounds like Clarence Thomas is gunning for it.
#CivilRights #EqualRights #LGBTQ #GayMarriage #USPolitics
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/28/clarance-thomas-precedence-supreme-court-docket
I’ve been married. To a woman. And we had two children. I know the sacrifice you make between what you want and what the children need. The latter comes first. I would make a good mate because of that.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/so-the-gay-witch-hunt-is-on-again-41df063e38f7?sk=e0c927d3b16402bff9c69ff308b010f6
Hillary Clinton warns the U.S. Supreme Court may overturn marriage equality, specifically Obergefell v. Hodges, echoing the fate of Roe v. Wade. She urges LGBTQ+ couples to marry now before protections vanish, highlighting decades of Republican efforts to reshape social rights. Read more: https://crooksandliars.com/2025/08/hillary-clinton-warns-scotus-will-overturn #HillaryClinton #SupremeCourt #MarriageEquality #Obergefell #LGBTQ #RoeVWade #RepublicanStrategy #CrooksAndLiars
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and the many authoritarian (and, let's face it, racist even when they pretended to be otherwise) Catholics outside the South who were enraged when the federal government recognized reproductive rights for women.
From that history to where we are now with Trump and MAGA is a straight line. These folks have been and are the driving force of the Republican party for years now.
#Obergefell #SameSexMarriage #SupremeCourt #ReligiousFreedom #KimDavis #CivilRights
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This was the genesis of the Religious Right, with Catholic activists then seizing the opportunity to build on the rage of white segregationist Christians in the South by introducing the issue of abortion, about which evangelicals had never cared, to cement an alliance between white Southern evangelicals (continued in /7)
#Obergefell #SameSexMarriage #SupremeCourt #ReligiousFreedom #KimDavis #CivilRights
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When the federal government began threatening to deny federal funding to church-based schools like Bob Jones University as long as the university refused to abide by civil rights laws, white churches across the South began to organize to "defend" their supposedly violated "religious freedom" to discriminate.
#Obergefell #SameSexMarriage #SupremeCourt #ReligiousFreedom #KimDavis #CivilRights
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White evangelical Christians, especially in the South, had long taught that "God" chose to make the races separate, with Black people consigned by God to serve white people.
When the federal government recognized the rights of people of color, there was a huge hullabaloo among white Southern evangelicals, who claimed that their religious freedom (to discriminate) was being violated, trampled on.
#Obergefell #SameSexMarriage #SupremeCourt #ReligiousFreedom #KimDavis #CivilRights
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