The United States Supreme Court, with a conservative majority, declined, Monday, November 10, to hear an appeal against the constitutionality of marriage between same-sex people, which was legalized for the entire country by the same court in 2015. The senior justices, who did not justify their decision, are highly anticipated on this issue after reversing decades of precedent in 2022 with a return to federal guarantees of abortion.
Kim Davis, a former Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue marriage documents to same-sex couples, asked the court to overturn the 2015 decision. The refusal to review the case was supposed to support her order to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages to male couples who had been denied certification of their marriages.
“Today, love wins again”welcomed the Human Rights Campaign’s associate president, Kelley Robinson, in a press release.
In 2013, the Supreme Court ruled that marriage is not intended for heterosexual couples. The 2015 ruling then forced countries that do not recognize marriages between two people of the same sex to not only marry them but also recognize their marriages when celebrated elsewhere.
14the amendment to the American Constitution “requires a state to celebrate marriage between two people of the same sex”and this is in the name of equality before the law, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in his ruling. The 2015 decision was celebrated with gusto by left-wing groups across the country, and then-President Barack Obama praised the decision. “a big step on our journey towards equality” and one “Victory for America”.
