The former county clerk says she should’ve been protected by the First Amendment and that a landmark 2015 ruling establishing same-sex marriage rights was wrongly decided

No more same-sex marriages? Next will be interracial marriages.

Child marriages will still be okay cause pedophiles are protected by Republicans.

  • xyzzy@lemmy.today
    31·
    2 days ago

    OK, so she was a county clerk who refused to issue a marriage certificate to a same-sex couple and was briefly jailed and fined as a result. Now she’s the vehicle to overturn same-sex marriage because she’s seen as basically the only person who would have standing to bring the issue before the Supreme Court again?

    But how does her case have any bearing on whether or not same-sex marriage should be legal? It’s a separate and unrelated issue. The connection isn’t even tenuous, it just seems nonexistent.

    I really hope the Supreme Court just declines to hear the case. At least Kavanaugh and Barrett don’t seem interested in revisiting the issue.

    • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
      10·
      1 day ago

      When has a conservative ever given you a reason to believe that they are arguing in good faith?

    • nman90@lemmy.world
      10·
      2 days ago

      My guess would be allowing people to refuse marriage certificates based on their biased beliefs, and i don’t think this stops at just same sex either, it probably will extend to race, religion or just that they don’t like you because you were not “nice” to them

    • TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today
      6·
      1 day ago

      It’s the oblique route for sure, but could be just as effective in the long run. You wouldn’t have to actually overturn the legal concept of gay marriage, while at the same time being able to prevent gay marriage from happening in the future.

      You just have to empower the position with the power to deny access to a marriage license and then fill those positions with people who don’t think it should exist. With one ruling you could potentially make it legal to deny gay people marriages, deny women the right to a divorce, or whatever insanely bigoted shit religious people dream up.

    • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
      4·
      2 days ago

      Well, it shouldn’t but the Supreme Court is going to jump at any excuse to overturn same-sex marriage. No legal reason, they just want to