Former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis asks Supreme Court to reverse same-sex marriage decision

[In It to Win It]

Kim Davis, the former Kentucky county clerk who was briefly jailed in 2015 for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to revisit its landmark decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, which effectively legalized same-sex marriage nationwide and celebrated its 10th anniversary in June.

Davis’s attorneys at the Christian nonprofit Liberty Counsel asked the court in a 90-page filing to review a March ruling by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upholding a lower court’s finding that Davis violated David Ermold and David Moore’s constitutional right to marry when she denied them a marriage license in 2015, shortly after the Supreme Court issued its Obergefell decision.

A federal jury awarded the couple $100,000 in damages in 2023, and a federal judge ordered Davis last year to pay Ermold and Moore an additional $260,000 in attorneys’ fees.

Davis argued in 2015 that granting the couple a marriage license would have violated her religious beliefs as a born-again Christian and “God’s definition of marriage.” She and her legal team have argued throughout a decadelong legal battle that, in denying the license, Davis was protected by her First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and religion.

In March, a three-judge panel for the 6th Circuit ruled that Davis cannot raise a First Amendment defense in the case “because she is being held liable for state action, which the First Amendment does not protect.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/former-kentucky-county-clerk-kim-214807806.html

[irisblue]

1. well well well. Here we go....

[gay texan]

2. Here we go n/t

[BOSSHOG]

3. When your fellow freedom hating fascists are on the Supreme Court

Why not give it a shot? Yo Go Girl. Yo Kim why not ask the Supremes to nullify all divorces ever granted. Surely divorce is not part of “Gods definition of Marriage.” And in the land of the free who the fuck is supposed to give a damn that many religious institutions don’t give a flying dog fuck about the separation of church and state. Except the tax exempt part, huh Kim.

[3catwoman3]

5. And she's been married how many times?

At least 3, IIRC.

[BOSSHOG]

6. Situational Ethics?

Heart full of hate, head full of rocks? No conceptualization of freedom in America?

[Johonny]

4. Awful people cant stand other people's

Happiness because they themselves cannot feel joy or happiness themselves. All they got is hate.

[2MuchNoise]

7. Good god! Not that horrid woman again. Bloody hell!

[yellowcanine]

8. Kim can't stand it that gay couples have better marriages

than she does.