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The Supreme Court rejects former Kentucky county clerk's request to drop her legal fees and overturn the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. It was a landmark, historical and deceive win for marriage equality.

Gay marriage is legal in the United States. The federal government should have no business in telling Americans who to love. 

Kim Davis, the white woman who became a voice of Christian nationalists was rejected by the Court. They were hoping Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito were willing to take up the case.

The Supreme Court on Monday morning turned down a request from Davis to reconsider  its 2015 decision recognizing a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. In a brief, unsigned order, the justices rejected Davis’ petition for review of a ruling by a federal appeals court upholding an award of $100,000 to a gay couple to whom she had refused to issue a marriage license. That petition had also asked the justices to overrule the 2015 decision, Obergefell v. Hodges, arguing that a right to same-sex marriage “had no basis in the Constitution.”

As is generally the case when it denies petitions for review, the court did not provide any explanation for its decision not to hear Davis’ case. If any justices disagreed with the decision not to take up the case, they did not note that disagreement publicly. 

Two different lawsuits followed: one by Moore and Ermold, who contended that she had violated their constitutional right to marry; and one challenging her refusal to issue any marriage licenses. In the latter case, U.S. District Judge David Bunning ordered Davis to issue licenses to both gay and straight couples. That prompted Moore and Ermold to try once again to obtain a license, but Davis and her deputies rejected that request, as well. Kentucky eventually enacted a law that would accommodate county clerks like Davis by removing their names and signatures from the forms used for marriage licenses. 

Moore and Ermold’s case against Davis went to trial, and a jury awarded each of them $50,000. Davis then appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, which upheld that award. It rejected Davis’ argument that requiring her to issue a marriage license to Moore and Ermold would have violated her First Amendment right to freely exercise her religion. In that court’s view, because Davis was acting on behalf of the government when she refused to issue the license, her actions were not protected by the First Amendment. 

The president, Congress and Supreme Court are deeply unpopular.

Davis next went to the Supreme Court, asking the justices to take up her appeal. She asked the justices to decide whether she could rely on the First Amendment as a defense in the lawsuit, as well as to consider overruling the court’s decision in Obergefell. She contended that the 2015 ruling “had no basis in the Constitution” and left her “with a choice between her religious beliefs and her job.” 

Moore and Ermold initially declined to respond to Davis’ petition for review, but on Aug. 7, the Supreme Court instructed them to file a response – a process that only requires the vote of at least one justice. In a brief filed on Oct. 8, the couple urged the justices to deny review. First, they contended, Davis only made the “current version” of her First Amendment argument after nine years of litigation – too late, they said, to give the lower courts “a fair opportunity to address it.” Second, they wrote, Davis “affirmatively waived” her right to ask the court to overturn Obergefell when she told the lower court that she “did not want to relitigate” that decision. 

Davis’ petition for review, along with Moore and Ermold’s brief in opposition and Davis’ reply, was distributed to the justices on Oct. 22 for consideration at their conference on Nov. 7. She would have needed at least four votes for her petition to be granted, but Monday’s order indicates that she could not get them. 

Y'all frustrated over freedom. The freedom to be yourself as an American in country which claims to represent those very things you pound the ground about.

You are repulsed by two men holding hands publicly. Or them kissing in public.

You mad that a man can wear a dress, high heels and have pretty fingernails. You mad they read to children, perform in the public square, dance in bars and entertaining on television.

You mad that a transgender woman can look better than your wife. They are participating in sports, social media, modeling, acting, government and entertainment.

You claim they are grooming kids. You claim they are woke and DEI. You believe they are pedophiles. Fine.

Stick to your freedoms of speech, boycotts and dissent.

Watch your Christian, Catholic or Jewish religious leaders. 

To put the blame on the gay community for the actions of grown adults who had the scene of knowing the risks is a reach.

Gay Americans want to live their lives too. They pay their taxes too.

Why strip or repeal gay marriage? Is there something I am missing here?

We are not a Christian nation. We are definitely a flawed nation with a frustration to the status quo. The status quo is white men and their need to be "problem solvers." 

Everyone else is just servants. That is about to end. 

The economy uncertainty, government shutdown and President Donald J. Trump being tone deaf has reached a boiling point. We are starting to reject the norms. It is time to change course.