Clerk who denied same-sex marriage licenses in 2015 is still fighting Supreme Court's ruling

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: AP

Updated 12:03 AM EDT, June 23, 2025


The Kentucky county clerk who became known around the world for her opposition to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling that legalized same-sex marriage is still arguing in court that it should be overturned. Kim Davis became a cultural lightning rod 10 years ago, bringing national media and conservative religious leaders to eastern Kentucky as she continued for weeks to deny the licenses. She later met Pope Francis in Rome and was parodied on “Saturday Night Live.”

Kim Davis denied marriage licenses to same-sex couples

Davis began denying marriage licenses to same-sex couples after the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges on June 26, 2015. Videos of a same-sex couple arguing with Davis in the clerk’s office over their denial of a license drew national attention to her office.

She defied court orders to issue the licenses until a federal judge jailed her for contempt of court in September 2015. Davis was released after her staff issued the licenses on her behalf but removed her name from the form. The Kentucky Legislature later enacted a law removing the names of all county clerks from state marriage licenses.

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Apparently she has a new "occupation" that involves making her irrelevant craven self relevant and staying in the news. She's fighting the judgement after being waved away by the Appeals Court -

A federal judge has ordered Davis to pay a total of $360,000 in damages and attorney fees to Ermold and his partner. Davis lost a bid in March to have her appeal of that ruling heard by a federal appeals court, but she will appeal again to the Supreme Court. Her attorney, Mat Staver of the Liberty Counsel, said the goal is affirm Davis’ constitutional rights and “overturn Obergefell.”

[BOSSHOG]

1. Oh the poor persecuted Christians

Poor Kim, how can she possibly live free and enjoy Justice in such a horrible country?

[Ray Bruns]

3. Christian persecution in America.

[Ray Bruns]

2. It's good to have a hobby I guess.

[mpcamb]

4. Who's bankrolling her? Just askin'...

"Follow the money." That's what advice Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
were given to bring down Nixon.

[reACTIONary]

8. From the article. ....

.... "Her attorney, Mat Staver of the Liberty Counsel" So, some organization called the Liberty Counsel.

[Nigrum Cattus]

14. RWRE's

Right Wing Religious Extremists
And because of the unconstitutional "non-profit"
tax status they write this off !

[Irish_Dem]

6. Who is funding her?

She is not fighting the US Supreme Court on her own.

[Lonestarblue]

7. The new right-wing extremist Southern Baptist Convention recently voted to bring cases to overturn LGBTQ+ rights.

Citing their success in taking away women’s reproductive rights to turn them into baby incubators, they decided to put their lobbying power now behind legal cases to overturn Obergefell and make non-heterosexual people illegal. Unfortunately, we have too many extremist evangelical judges Trump appointed during his first term, along with a partisan right-wing religious majority on the SC. Given that Trump will have many other opportunities to appoint Christian Nationalist who want to replace the Constitution with their personal interpretation of the Bible, there’s a good chance they will succeed.

[Irish_Dem]

9. Pure evil to deprive Americans of their rights

Why don't they mind their own damn business.

[louis-t]

11. And trmp will give her a medal.

For her bigotry.

[sakabatou]

10. I bet she would've fought against Loving v. Virginia back in the day.

[Ms. Toad]

12. This is a bit misleading. She's not "still fighting the Supreme Court's ruling"

She is appealing a civil verdict imposed for the emotional distress her refusal to follow the law (including directions made directly to her ordering her to follow the law) caused the gay couple she refused to issue a marriage license.

When she lost the civil case, she was entitled to an appeal of right. The Sixth Circuit court of appeals rejected her arguments and upheld the trial court's decision. She is now, as she is entitled to, petitioning to have her case heard by the Supreme Court. This is not an appeal of right, so the Supreme Court can choose to take it or deny the writ of certiorari.

But even if it chooses to take it, the issue is whether she caused emotional distress to the couple, and whether the amount of the damage award ($50,000 to each member of the couple) was appropriate. The remainder of the $360,000 appears to be attorney fees.

So even though this was triggered by her response to the 2015 ruling, the validity of the 2015 ruling has no bearing on whether she deliberately ignored the law and, in doing so, caused emotional distress.

[BumRushDaShow]

15. I think the article is implying

that she originally got herself into this position by LOSING her main case at the SCOTUS regarding her refusal to follow the law requiring she issue marriage licenses for LGBTQ people. If she had won, she probably wouldn't be defending herself again.

She is now going through the repercussions of her poor decision via a civil process and is now battling her "punishment" up the line again.

[Ms. Toad]

16. It was never really at SCOTUS.

The only SCOTUS involvement was to refuse to issue (without opinion) a stay of the lower court injunction, after both the appellate court and the lower court refused to issue a stay pending appeal. SCOTUS never considered the merits of anything - just said "nope, no stay"

[BumRushDaShow]

17. "The only SCOTUS involvement was to refuse to issue (without opinion) a stay of the lower court injunction"

Meaning they didn't bother to "save her".

[LetMyPeopleVote]

13. This lady is lucky to have some nut case lawyers who keep pushing this case

These lawyers have an agenda and are using this stupid lady to push this agenda

[twodogsbarking]

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