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BumRushDaShow

(157,324 posts) Fri Jul 25, 2025, 01:04 PM Friday

Kim Davis refused same-sex marriage license in 2015. Now she wants to cancel gay marriage.

Source: USA Today

July 24, 205 | Updated July 25, 2025 7:47 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON – A former Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses in 2015 because of her religious beliefs is hoping the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority wants to scrap the court’s 10-year-old decision extending marriage rights to LGBTQ+ couples.

Kim Davis asked the court to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges in an appeal filed on July 24 about the compensation she was ordered to pay a couple after denying them a marriage license.

Mat Staver, head of Liberty Counsel, the conservative legal group representing Davis, said that decision threatens the religious liberty of Americans who believe marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman. "The High Court now has the opportunity to finally overturn this egregious opinion from 2015," Staver said in a statement.

Mary Bonauto, a senior director with GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders, said Davis' legal team is trying to shoehorn an opportunity to relitigate Obergefell into a narrow legal question of whether the former clerk should have to pay damages. "There’s good reason for the Supreme Court to deny review in this case rather than unsettle something so positive for couples, children, families, and the larger society as marriage equality," Bonauto said in an emailed response.

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/07/24/supreme-court-marriage-equality-overturn-obergefell/85360954007/

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Kim Davis refused same-sex marriage license in 2015. Now she wants to cancel gay marriage. (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Friday OP

Fuck you Kim Davis! Go away! Initech Friday #1

Can anyone just ask the court for favors ? Fullduplexxx Friday #2

You can if you have enough money and want to take the US back to the dark ages. Irish_Dem Friday #3

That was kind of my point getting to the Supreme Court is expensive where did she come up with the money Fullduplexxx Friday #6

She is obviously being backed by big money. Irish_Dem Friday #8

Yes, you can. Grins Friday #16

This occurred over half a century ago. Times have changed since then. Irish_Dem Friday #18

Apparently if you kiss enough MAGA ass you can. Initech Friday #5

Why does someone else's marriage threaten your religious freedom, Kim? Ocelot II Friday #4

Kim Davis is a professional troll and that's it. Initech Friday #7

She's been married 4 times - 3 different husbands. - So much for the " sanctity" of marriage tulipsandroses Friday #12

Still around eh just like a cockroach............. Bengus81 Friday #9

Mind your own fucking business, Kimberly. LudwigPastorius Friday #10

It's really taking a lot for me to not hate these johnnyfins Friday #11

She needs to be sent to same place immigrants are. bluestarone Friday #13

Obviously, she does not support the 14th Amendment. How does she feel about the 2nd Amendment? Oopsie Daisy Friday #14

Didn't she spend some time in jail? question everything Friday #15

if they overturn gay marriag eI predict there will be serious violence moonshinegnomie Friday #17

Initech

(105,771 posts)

1. Fuck you Kim Davis! Go away!

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Fri Jul 25, 2025, 01:06 PM

Friday

Go shove your MAGA fundie Taliban bullshit where it don't shine!

Fullduplexxx

(8,536 posts)

2. Can anyone just ask the court for favors ?

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Fri Jul 25, 2025, 01:10 PM

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Irish_Dem

(72,738 posts)

3. You can if you have enough money and want to take the US back to the dark ages.

Reply to Fullduplexxx (Reply #2)

Fri Jul 25, 2025, 01:11 PM

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Fullduplexxx

(8,536 posts)

6. That was kind of my point getting to the Supreme Court is expensive where did she come up with the money

Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #3)

Fri Jul 25, 2025, 01:13 PM

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Irish_Dem

(72,738 posts)

8. She is obviously being backed by big money.

Reply to Fullduplexxx (Reply #6)

Fri Jul 25, 2025, 01:18 PM

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You don't take a case all the way to the Supreme Court on a clerk's wages.

Grins

(8,660 posts)

16. Yes, you can.

Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #8)

Fri Jul 25, 2025, 04:08 PM

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Gideon v. Wainwright

Find the book or movie; Gideon’s Trumpet

Irish_Dem

(72,738 posts)

18. This occurred over half a century ago. Times have changed since then.

Reply to Grins (Reply #16)

Fri Jul 25, 2025, 04:30 PM

Friday

Attorneys are now very expensive.
Someone has to know the legal system to take a case to the SC.

Who is going to pay for all of this for Kim Davis in 2025.

Initech

(105,771 posts)

5. Apparently if you kiss enough MAGA ass you can.

Reply to Fullduplexxx (Reply #2)

Fri Jul 25, 2025, 01:13 PM

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Ocelot II

(126,300 posts)

4. Why does someone else's marriage threaten your religious freedom, Kim?

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Fri Jul 25, 2025, 01:13 PM

Friday

Maybe you think God doesn't approve of same-sex marriage. OK, then don't have a same-sex marriage if you think God will get mad at you. If God gets mad at other people who enter into same-sex marriages, isn't that their problem, not yours? If I believe God is merciful and loving and approves of and blesses all marriages no matter the genders of the participants, aren't you interfering with my religious freedom by making the government outlaw those marriages? Go read the First Amendment - both halves of the religion clause - you tiresome cow.

Initech

(105,771 posts)

7. Kim Davis is a professional troll and that's it.

Reply to Ocelot II (Reply #4)

Fri Jul 25, 2025, 01:14 PM

Friday

She offers literally nothing of value to society and is actively trying to take away things that make this society better. She can go fuck right the fuck off with that shit.