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Hodges, two conservative justices are calling that ruling into question, perhaps previewing the court\u2019s agenda if Republicans succeed in confirming Amy Coney Barrett.In declining to hear an appeal from Kim Davis, a former Kentucky clerk who turned away a same-sex couple seeking a marriage license, Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito suggested that marriage equality should be overturned. The justices argued that the court decided a matter that should have been left to state legislatures and restricted religious freedoms.\u201cObergefell enables courts and governments to brand religious adherents who believe that marriage is between one man and one woman as bigots, making their religious liberty concerns that much easier to dismiss,\u201d Thomas added.The statement is an invitation to bring cases that would strip LGBTQ+ couples of the right to marry, according to LGBTQ+ legal experts.\u201cSo much for precedent and judicial restraint,\u201d tweeted former Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg. \u201cTwo justices now openly call for an end to marriage equality\u2014knowing reinforcements are on the way.\u201dTwo justices now openly call for an end to marriage equality\u2014knowing reinforcements are on the way.\u2014Pete ButtigiegCamilla Taylor, a Lambda Legal attorney who fought the Obergefell case that made marriage equality legal nationwide, says she is \u201cabsolutely\u201d concerned about the fate of the law as the Senate prepares to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett.\u201cMarriage equality is one of the top issues targeted by the very wealthy far-right activists that we have battled all along,\u201d Taylor told The 19th.Taylor said LGBTQ+ legal advocates had long hoped that the court would uphold its recent opinions as a matter of protecting the court\u2019s legitimacy. Now, she believes that all bets are off, and, as a result, all LGBTQ+ rights are up for grabs.\u201cIt is hard to trust that the court will treat our lives, our cases, in a manner that respects basic humanity,\u201d she said.Barrett, Trump\u2019s pick to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, has been painted as a foe of LGBTQ+ equality. She has given lectures to extreme anti-LGBTQ+ group Alliance Defending Freedom, which the Southern Poverty Law Center has designated as a hate group. Twenty-seven LGBTQ+ organizations opposed her confirmation to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in 2017.In a 2016 lecture at Jacksonville University, Barrett said it would \u201cstrain\u201d the text of Title IX to allow transgender people to use public restrooms that match their genders, categorizing trans women as \u201cmales.\u201d\u201cPeople will feel passionately on either side about whether physiological males who identify as females should be permitted in bathrooms, especially where there are young girls present,\u201d Barrett said.But despite Barrett\u2019s record, some feel that some basic LGBTQ+ rights are safe. James Esseks, director of the ACLU\u2019s LGBT & HIV Project, does not expect the court to overturn marriage equality outright.\u201cThat said, there are definitely some on the court who would overturn it,\u201d Esseks said. \u201cBut look, the freedom to marry is something that has become a part of American culture.\u201dWhat he anticipates are wide carve-outs for people of faith that substantially undermine the institution of marriage for LGBTQ+ people.Alphonso David, president of the Human Rights Campaign, has a name for those marriages.\u201cFrom eliminating hospital visitation rights and medical decision-making in religiously affiliated medical centers to granting businesses a license to discriminate against LGBTQ couples, \u2018skim-milk marriage\u2019 would have a devastating effect on our community\u2019s ability to live freely and openly,\u201d he said in a statement. Article republished with permission from the 19th.Photo by Jessica Hunt, Tavion + Andrew: A Greenville, South Carolina, summer LGBTQ+ wedding with rose petal exit\u00a0"},{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Supreme Court justices set stage to end marriage equality","item":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/supreme-court-justices-set-stage-to-end-marriage-equality\/#breadcrumbitem"}]}]