❓WHAT HAPPENED: The United States Supreme Court has declined to take up a case that could have resulted in a potential challenge to same-sex marriage.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: The Supreme Court, former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis, and her attorney Mat Staver.
📍WHEN & WHERE: Monday, November 10, 2025.
💬KEY QUOTE: “Like the abortion decision in Roe v. Wade, Obergefell was egregiously wrong from the start. We will continue to work to overturn Obergefell. It is not a matter of if, but when the Supreme Court will overturn Obergefell.” — Mat Staver
🎯IMPACT: While Staver remains confident that a challenge to overturn same-sex marriage will occur, the high court appears disinclined towards such a case.
The United States Supreme Court has declined to take up a case that could have resulted in a potential challenge to same-sex marriage. Notably, Democrat lawmakers—in their criticism of the high court—have consistently claimed the justices would not pass on the chance to overturn the Obergefell decision and effectively undo gay marriage.
On Monday, the court denied out of hand an appeal filed by former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis, seeking to mitigate the hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines and damages stemming from her refusal to issue same-sex marriage licenses. By rejecting the appeal request, the Supreme Court ended one of several avenues by which it could take up a challenge to Obergefell.
Far-left activists and Democrat lawmakers have consistently held that Davis’s appeal would likely serve as the vehicle by which the Supreme Court majority would look to undo Obergefell, much like Roe v. Wade. The evidence pointed to was a short line in a concurring opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, in which Justice Clarence Thomas insinuated that same-sex marriage should also be revisited by the court. However, none of the other justices expressed a similar opinion nor suggested revisiting Obergefell was an aim.
Despite the setback, Mat Staver—founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, the legal group that represented Davis—expressed his confidence that the right case will come along that will result in the reversal of the federal requirement to allow same-sex marriage. “Like the abortion decision in Roe v. Wade, Obergefell was egregiously wrong from the start. We will continue to work to overturn Obergefell. It is not a matter of if, but when the Supreme Court will overturn Obergefell,” Staver said following the court’s decision not to take up Davis’s case.
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