For the first time since 2015, the US Supreme Court has been asked to overturn a landmark ruling on same-sex marriage.
The Supreme Court will take up the case this Fall.
Kim Davis, the Christian Kentucky clerk who went to jail for refusing to issue a same-sex marriage license in 2015, filed the petition and argued the high court’s decision in Obergefell v Hodges was “egregiously wrong.”
ABC News reported:
Ten years after the Supreme Court extended marriage rights to same-sex couples nationwide, the justices this fall will consider for the first time whether to take up a case that explicitly asks them to overturn that decision.
Kim Davis, the former Kentucky county clerk who was jailed for six days in 2015 after refusing to issue marriage licenses to a gay couple on religious grounds, is appealing a $100,000 jury verdict for emotional damages plus $260,000 for attorneys fees.
In a petition for writ of certiorari filed last month, Davis argues First Amendment protection for free exercise of religion immunizes her from personal liability for the denial of marriage licenses.
More fundamentally, she claims the high court’s decision in Obergefell v Hodges — extending marriage rights for same-sex couples under the 14th Amendment’s due process protections — was “egregiously wrong.”
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