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Hodges. The Supreme Court is unlikely to hear the case, and the Respect for Marriage. Davis, as the Rowan County Clerk inwas the sole authority tasked with issuing marriage licenses on behalf of the government under state law. She zeroes in on Justice Clarence Thomas' concurrence in that case, in which he explicitly called for revisiting Obergefell.

The justices "should reconsider all of this Court's substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell," Thomas wrote at the time, referring to the landmark decisions dealing with a fundamental right to court, due process and equal protection rights.

If the case is accepted, it would likely be scheduled for oral argument next spring and decided by the end of June The court could also decline the case, allowing a lower court ruling to stand and avoid entirely the request to revisit Obergefell.

A federal appeals court panel concluded earlier this year that the former clerk "cannot raise the First Amendment as a defense because she is being held liable for state action, which the First Amendment does not protect.

In June, the Southern Baptist Convention -- the nation's largest Protestant Christian denomination -- overwhelmingly voted to make "overturning of laws and court rulings, including Obergefell v. More fundamentally, she claims the high court's decision in Obergefell v Hodges -- extending marriage rights for same-sex couples under the 14th Amendment's due process protections -- was "egregiously wrong.

If the ruling were to be overturned at some point in the supreme, it would not invalidate marriages already performed, legal experts have pointed out. At the time Obergefell was decided in35 states had statutory or constitutional bans on same-sex marriages, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Davis is seen as one of the only Americans currently with legal standing to bring a challenge to the precedent. The justice was asked about Hillary Clinton marriage she believes the Supreme Court "will do to gay marriage what they did to abortion.".

Blackman predicts many members of the Supreme Court's conservative majority would want prospective challenges to Obergefell to percolate in lower courts before revisiting the debate. Court of Appeals showed any interest in Davis's rehearing petition, and we gay confident the Supreme Court will likewise agree that Davis's arguments do not merit further attention," said William Powell, attorney for David Ermold and David Moore, the now-married Kentucky couple that sued Davis for damages, in a statement to ABC News.

He calls Justice Anthony Kennedy's majority opinion in Obergefell "legal fiction. In a petition for writ of certiorari filed last month, Davis argues First Amendment protection for free exercise of religion immunizes her from personal liability for the denial of marriage licenses.

Ten years after the Supreme Court extended marriage rights to same-sex couples nationwide, the justices this fall will consider for the first time whether to take up a case that explicitly asks them to overturn that decision. But there are a few signals that suggest otherwise — that the court could be preparing to both take up the case and reverse the decision, sending the question of legal access to gay marriage.

Davis' petition argues the issue of marriage should be treated the same way the court handled the issue of abortion in its decision to overturn Roe v Wade. The court is expected to formally consider Davis' petition this fall during a private conference when the justices discuss which cases to add to their docket.

The court of appeals acknowledged that in Obergefell the Supreme Court observed that “many people ‘deem same-sex marriage to be wrong’ based on ‘religious or philosophical premises.’” “But those opposed to same-sex marriage,” the court of appeals wrote, “do not have a right to transform their ‘personal opposition’ into.

10 years after the Supreme Court extended marriage rights to all same-sex couples, it will consider whether to take a case asking it to overturn the decision. The petition appears to mark the first time since that the court has been formally asked to overturn the landmark marriage decision.

Hodges, that defy God's design for marriage and family" a top priority. Davis' appeal to the Supreme Court comes as conservative opponents of marriage rights for same-sex couples pursue a renewed campaign to reverse legal precedent and allow each state to set its own policy.

Lower courts have dismissed Davis' claims and most legal experts consider her bid a long shot. So far inat least nine states have either introduced legislation aimed at blocking new marriage licenses for LGBTQ people or passed resolutions urging the Supreme Court to reverse Obergefell at the earliest opportunity, back to the advocacy group Lambda Legal.

Only eight states had enacted laws explicitly allowing the unions. A former Kentucky clerk petitioned the Supreme Court to overturn the same-sex marriage ruling, Obergefell v. Kim Davis, a former clerk who refused gay couples, brought the appeal.