[{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BlogPosting","@id":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/supreme-court-declines-to-hear-marriage-equality-case\/#BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/supreme-court-declines-to-hear-marriage-equality-case\/","headline":"Supreme Court Declines to Hear Marriage Equality Case","name":"Supreme Court Declines to Hear Marriage Equality Case","description":"This story was originally reported by Kate Sosin of The 19th. Meet Kate and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy. The...","datePublished":"2025-11-25","dateModified":"2025-11-25","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/author\/eweditors\/#Person","name":"Equally Wed","url":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/author\/eweditors\/","identifier":3,"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ca62cf123aaaf135c80b055249bacbda79de9226e11cdfcde6529bedf89683de?s=96&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ca62cf123aaaf135c80b055249bacbda79de9226e11cdfcde6529bedf89683de?s=96&r=g","height":96,"width":96}},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Equally Wed","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"http:\/\/equallywed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/equally-wed-lgbtq-weddings-logo.jpg","url":"http:\/\/equallywed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/equally-wed-lgbtq-weddings-logo.jpg","width":218,"height":60}},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/supreme-court-marriage-equality-case.jpg","url":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/supreme-court-marriage-equality-case.jpg","height":810,"width":1440},"url":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/supreme-court-declines-to-hear-marriage-equality-case\/","about":["Marriage Equality News","News"],"wordCount":361,"articleBody":"This story was originally reported by Kate Sosin of The 19th.  Meet Kate and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy.The Supreme Court will not hear a case to overturn marriage equality, it announced on Monday. The justices have rejected a petition from Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue licenses in the state a decade ago.Davis\u2019 petition has been closely watched, but was seen as a long shot.For the past decade, Davis\u00a0 has been battling against giving marriage licenses to same-sex couples. She was jailed for six days and fined $100,000 plus attorney\u2019s fees for refusing to do so.It is the second time Davis petitioned the court to hear her case. She made similar arguments five years ago, and the court also declined to take up the case then.\u201cDavis possesses a sincerely held religious belief that marriage is a union between one man and one woman,\u201d her petition to the high court stated.She was largely viewed as one of few Americans with legal standing to challenge the 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges that made marriage equality the law of the land.\u00a0 But LGBTQ+ legal scholars have stated that her legal standing was still shaky and that the foundation for marriage equality remains strong.Still, Kevin Jennings, CEO of Lambda Legal, the nation\u2019s largest LGBTQ+ legal organization said in a statement that now is not a time for LGBTQ+ advocates to let their guard down.\u201cThis frivolous case now belongs in the trash bin of history,\u201d Jennings said. \u201cBut let\u2019s not be na\u00efve: our opponents are well-resourced and determined.\u201dA majority of Americans would lose access to marriage equality if Obergefell\u00a0 was overturned; 35 states have either a constitutional ban on marriage equality or a statute prohibiting LGBTQ+ couples from marrying. Some have both.However, in 2022, Congress passed the Respect for Marriage Act, a law that forces states to recognize out-of-state marriages and that grandfathers pre-existing same-sex marriages into law. As a result, married LGBTQ+ couples would remain married and couples wanting to get married could do so by traveling to other states that allow marriage equality."},{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Supreme Court Declines to Hear Marriage Equality Case","item":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/supreme-court-declines-to-hear-marriage-equality-case\/#breadcrumbitem"}]}]