The Supreme Court may consider the possibility of nullifying marital rights Sex couples. Former secretary of Kentucky Kim DavisHe was imprisoned in 2015 after refusing to grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples, he has filed an appeal in the hope of convincing the court to annul Obergefell v. Hodges, the case that allowed same sex marriages across the country 10 years ago.
In a pet request of a certilari presented in July, Davis said that the first amendment gives him the right to deny marriage certificates for religious reasons. For News ABCDavis said the court was “wrong” when he allowed himself to marriage in the same sex to the decision of Obergefell vs Hodges.
What did Kim Davis say in his request to the Supreme Court about gay marriage?
“The error must be corrected,” Davis’s prosecutor Mathew Staver wrote at the request.
The lawyer said that Davis, one of the few people who has the legal position to challenge the case, is “the first individual in the history of the Republic who was imprisoned to follow his religious convictions on the historical definition of marriage, should be -“
Davis filed his last request after the lower courts dismissed his case. By the beginning of 2025, a court of the Federal Appeal Court said that Davis “cannot raise the first amendment as a defense because he is responsible for the state’s action, which the first amendment does not protect”.
What happened to Kim Davis in 2015?
When she was worked as secretary of Rowan County in 2015, Davis was the only person who had authority to issue legal marriage licenses under state law. The former secretary faced a lawsuit at the time after denying a license for the Kentucky couple, David Ermold and David Moore.
Reaching his request, Davis said that the court must cancel Obergefell and return marriage rights to the states. Speaking NewsweekStaver said that Obergefell’s decision is “weak in a shaking ground.”
“It has no basis in the Constitution,” Staver said in an interview Newsweek. “This is what made this problem with Kim Davis be sent to prison for six days and now faces hundreds of thousands of dollars personally, it is the Opengefell Originally opinion, and I think it is time to revalue -and annul it. “”
Some legal experts, however, say that Davis is not likely to succeed in his case. Daniel Urman, Professor of Law at Northeastern University, told Newsweek that It is “very unlikely that the court listens to the case.” Urman said that judges Clarence Thomas and Judge Samuel Alito may agree with Davis, but other conservatives such as Neil Gorsuch, Amy Cope Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh and John Roberts are less likely to annul marriage in the same sex.
“There is a possibility that a conservative majority can use the case to expand the rights of religious objectors to same -sex marriage,” Urman told Newsweek. “But this is not the same as annulment of the right itself, and I do not see the majority of the court ready to do so. Culturally, the same sex has been embedded in American life and is still popular in public opinion polls.”
