Michigan Attorney General praises Supreme Court decision but warns same-sex marriage still at risk
On Monday morning, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an order declining to take up a case seeking to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 case that granted same-sex couples the right to marry nationwide.
The case, brought by former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis, argued that Davis’s First Amendment rights to free exercise of religion had been infringed upon by requiring her to issue marriage licenses to gay couples. One of those couples, David Moore and David Ermold, took Davis to court and were eventually granted $50,000 each, a decision upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit in March. The Supreme Court declined both Davis’s petition to overturn that monetary award, as well as the broader question of same-sex marriage rights.
In Michigan, Attorney General Dana Nessel expressed relief for the decision, but noted that it would likely not be the last legal threat to same-sex marriage rights or Obergefell.
“I am relieved for today’s decision reaffirming same-sex couples’ continued right to dignity and protection under the law, but we cannot take those protections for granted,” she said in a press release. “Members of this Supreme Court have already told us they are willing to overturn Obergefell. It’s only a matter of time before they do.”
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