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The United States Supreme Court on Monday rejected a request that would have allowed it to overturn the landmark ruling recognizing the constitutional right to same-sex marriage, a decision that had alarmed the LGBTQ+ community, fearing that the court's conservative majority could revisit precedents from the past decade.
Instead, the court dismissed the appeal of Kim Davis, a former Kentucky county clerk who now faces hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages and court fees for her refusal to issue marriage certificates following the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision, which legalized same-sex marriage across the United States.
The court gave no reason for rejecting the appeal, even though the case had attracted great public attention, especially after its 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, which had guaranteed the constitutional right to abortion since 1973. After that decision, fears that the Court would also touch on the Obergefell case had grown significantly.
“Today, love won again,” said Kelley Robinson, president of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest U.S. LGBTQ+ rights organization. “When a public official swears to serve the community, that pledge serves everyone, including LGBTQ+ people. The Supreme Court showed today that refusing to respect the constitutional rights of others has consequences.”
Anthony Kennedy, the justice who wrote the landmark opinion in favor of marriage equality, retired in 2018 and was replaced by conservative Brett Kavanaugh. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a liberal icon and supporter of the 2015 decision, died in 2020 and was succeeded by conservative Amy Coney Barrett. Three current members of the Court – John Roberts, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito – have opposed the Obergefell decision since then.
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