Supreme Courtroom declines to revisit homosexual marriage resolution : NPR

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Timothy D. Easley/AP The U.S. Supreme Courtroom on Monday declined to take up a case difficult its landmark resolution to legalize homosexual marriage nationwide.

The problem to the courtroom's 2015 ruling got here from Kim Davis, the previous Kentucky clerk who refused to concern same-sex licenses after the courtroom's Obergefell v. Hodges resolution, which acknowledged a constitutional proper to same-sex marriage.

Within the aftermath of her refusal, Davis was jailed for performing in contempt of courtroom and misplaced her clerk re-election. A jury additionally ordered her to pay $360,000 to a few who she refused to marry. Davis tried to get out of paying this verdict by moreover requesting that the courtroom assert that she has a First Modification spiritual safety from legal responsibility for her actions.

The courtroom declined her petition with out remark.

Davis has lengthy argued that spiritual liberties battle with Obergefell.

"If ever there was a case of remarkable significance, the primary particular person within the Republic's historical past who was jailed for following her spiritual convictions concerning the historic definition of marriage, this ought to be it," she argued in her petition earlier than the courtroom.

She isn't alone in desirous to problem the legality of same-sex marriage. In response to Lambda Authorized, which advocates for homosexual rights, on this 12 months alone at the least 9 states have entertained payments or resolutions criticizing Obergefell or have sought to restrict marriage to heterosexual {couples}. On Oct. 24, the Supreme Courtroom of Texas adopted language permitting judges to refuse to carry out same-sex wedding ceremony ceremonies because of spiritual beliefs.

In his concurring opinion within the case that overturned the constitutional proper to abortion, Justice Clarence Thomas expressly acknowledged that the Supreme Courtroom ought to rethink its stances on contraception, same-sex marriage, and same-sex intimacy.

Had the Supreme Courtroom determined to listen to Davis' case and later overturn Obergefell, same-sex marriage would nonetheless be protected on the federal stage. In 2022, former President Joe Biden signed into legislation the Respect for Marriage Act, which repeals the Protection of Marriage Act and acknowledges the legitimacy of same-sex and interracial marriages. If Obergefell was overturned, nevertheless, particular person states may refuse to acknowledge same-sex marriages.