Supreme Court Rejects Attack on Marriage Equality – The Tuesday AM Quickie 11/11/25
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Supreme Court Rejects Attack on Marriage Equality/FU Kim Davis
The Kentucky county clerk who hates gay people won’t get a do-over. The Supreme Court yesterday rejected an appeal from bigot Kim Davis to overturn its 2015 landmark decision legalizing same-sex marriage, NBC News and the NYT reported. “Today, the Supreme Court affirmed what we all know: marriage equality is the law of the land,” Lambda Legal CEO Kevin Jennings said in a statement. Advocates had been worried that Trump’s high priests would agree with Davis, given their other terrible rulings, especially the 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Justice Clarence Thomas, the Harlan Crow beneficiary, said in his concurring opinion in the decision to revoke reproductive rights that the court should reconsider same-sex marriage and other rulings. But that didn’t happen, so again, FU, Kim Davis.
Davis was a clerk in Rowan County, Kentucky. Shortly after the judges ruled for marriage equity, she decided to take the law into her own hands and stop people from exercising their right to marry. Her office denied licenses to several same-sex couples, including David Moore and David Ermold. The couple filed a civil rights lawsuit, Davis was ordered to give them a license, and again she said no. So the judge held her in contempt and threw her in the clink for six days. A jury subsequently awarded the couple $100,000 in damages. Davis was also ordered to pay them $260,000 in legal fees. The case now goes back to the lower court and Moore and Ermold will try to collect the damages they’ve waited a decade for. Pay them, Kim Davis.
The Supreme Court is still a cabal of mostly ghouls and NBC correctly points out that it has taken other steps to erode LGBTQ rights, “including by expanding the ability of people to seek exemptions from laws they object to because of their faith.” But they didn’t take away marriage equality yesterday and that is good. Bye forever, KIM DAVIS.