The former Kentucky court clerk, Kim Davis, who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples will be appealing to the top court soon, her lawyer says.
By Catholics for Catholics
Legal same sex unions could come under revision due to an upcoming appeal by the Supreme Court, when it reviews the case of a Kentucky Court clerk who refused to sign marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
The Supreme Court justices will have the chance to revisit the Obergefell v. Hodges ruling, according to Mat Staver, chairman of Liberty Counsel, a public interest law firm.
The Epoch Times reported that the Liberty Counsel firm will request the nation’s highest court by July 27. It will ask whether former clerk Kim Davis should be able to raise the First Amendment in her defense and whether Obergefell should be overturned.
The Times reported that on June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court ruled 5–4 in Obergefell v. Hodges that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution obliges all states to concede licenses for same-sex legal unions and recognize same-sex legal unions carried out in other states.
Simultaneously, the court struck down the federal Defense of Marriage Act, a 1996 law that defined marriage as the union between one man and one woman, and allowed states to refuse to accept same-sex marriages recognized under other states’ laws.
Staver told The Times he believes that Obergefell is on shakier ground than Roe v. Wade because “it invented same sex marriage out of thin air with zero precedent and zero basis in the Constitution.”
“It’s not a matter of if. It’s a matter of when. It’s going to go away,” he said.
If the practice is overturned, states would be permitted to choose whether they will accept or discontinue same sex legal unions, he said.
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