"The Supreme Court legalized gay marriage in 2015, and Davis has spent the 10 years since trying to get it overturned. As a Kentucky county clerk, she repeatedly marriage licenses to gay couples, asserting she had a First Amendment right to discriminate on behalf of her religious views. Despite being told -multiple times-that illegal, she eventually spent five nights in jail in 2015."
"They also echoed the arguments of Justice Clarence Thomas, who, in his concurrence in the Obergefell should be overturned for the same reasons articulated by the court in Dobbs case (which overturned Roe), wrote that the Court should overrule Obergefell, as well as same-sex intimacy ( Lawrence v. Texas, 2003) and the right for married couples to use birth control ( Griswold v. Connecticut, 1965)."
The Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in 2015, and Kim Davis spent a decade attempting to overturn that precedent. As a Kentucky county clerk she repeatedly refused marriage licenses to gay couples, claiming a First Amendment right to act on her religious beliefs. Authorities found her actions illegal, and she spent five nights in jail in 2015. A federal jury ordered her to pay $100,000 to a couple in 2023, and a federal judge added $260,000 in legal fees the next year. The Sixth Circuit refused her appeal, and the Supreme Court declined to hear the case. Her lawyers cited Justice Thomas’s concurrence and Justice Alito’s history-and-tradition test, and the Liberty Counsel vowed to continue efforts to overturn Obergefell.
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