Justices weigh revising same-sex marriage issue
By: Lauren Villagran
USA Today
..... The Supreme Court is debating taking up a case challenging the decade-old decision that legalized same-sex marriage in the United States.
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The November 7 [2025] deliberations were closed-door, but the court could announce its decision to take up the case aw early as November 10. [2025]
..... The case centers on former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis, who appealed OT the high court after she was ordered to pay a gay couple $100,000 fro refusing to marry them in 2015. She argued that performing the marriage violated her religious beliefs.
..... Davis, who served as clerk in Rowan County at the time, drew international attention when she refused to issue a marriage license to David Ermold and David Moore in the wake of the court's ruing that made same-sex marriage legal in all 50 states. That case was known as Obergefell v. Hodges.
..... Some conservative are hoping the justices will revisit the issue, after the conservative majority overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022 - undoing a 50-year legal precedent and effectively turning questions about abortion access back to the states.
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Justice Samuel Alito, one of the court's most conservative justices, wrote the majority opinion that undid the Roe precedent. But Alito has given no indication he is inclined to do the same in the Davis case.
..... After criticizing the decisions that legalized same-sex marriage, Alito recently clarified: "I am not suggesting that the decision in that case should be overruled," he said at an October 3 [2025] event organized by the C. Boyden Gay Center for the Study of the Administrative State. "I have to state that so that what i say today [11/07/2025] is not misunderstood."Same-sex couples and others in the LGBTO+ community are watching the court closely, worried that their right to marry could be curtailed or their marriage made null. However, if the court takes up the Davis case and overturns preformatted, same-sex marriages could still remain protected.
..... In 2022, former President Joe Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act into law, which protects same-sex and interracial marriages at the federal level.