Excellent news from the Supreme Court today. Wait, did we really just write that, and about this court?
But miracles do happen. Without comment, SCOTUS refused former county clerk Kim Davis's request to revisit its 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision that legalized marriage equality across the country. Yay!
Davis is a truly awful person who, despite Obergefell, continued to deny marriage licenses to gay couples in Kentucky. Now she owes about $350,000 in damages and legal fees, which she's desperate not to pay. But even Amy Coney Barrett and Samuel Alito are apparently not interested in disrupting a million families just because Clarence Thomas wants them to. So it looks like Kim is stuck with her bills.
The haters and the homophobes will no doubt try again. They must be searching right now for a plaintiff who isn't as off-putting as Davis — say, someone who doesn't commit a "fashion don't" each time they walk out the door. But for now, Obergefell is safe. We cats PURR.
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