Supreme Court rejects appeal to revisit same-sex marriage ruling
After much controversy surrounding whether the court would hear an appeal regarding the constitutionality of Obergefell v. Hodges, SCOTUS declined to reconsider the ruling on Monday
by Summer Lane | November 10, 2025
The Supreme Court of the United States has rejected an appeal that would have revisited the constitutionality of Obergefell v. Hodges, a 2015 ruling that established same-sex marriage as a constitutional right.
In a simple and unexplained decision, the court rejected the appeal in a Monday morning list of orders.
As reported by LindellTV, SCOTUS was previously set to decide whether it would hear a challenge to same-sex marriage from a Kentucky county clerk, Kim Davis, who found herself in hot water after refusing to issue marriage licenses in her official capacity as a clerk in the aftermath of the 2015 Supreme Court ruling on Obergefell.
Davis was jailed in 2015 for her actions, and a 6th Circuit Court of Appeals determined that Clark had the right to express her First Amendment rights as a private citizen, but not as a government employee.
Davis’s appeal to the Supreme Court asked them not only to revisit her case, but to consider the constitutionality of the 2015 ruling on same-sex marriage.
Despite the court’s decision to dodge the dicey question on its previous precedent regarding same-sex marriage, a new poll from YouGov revealed that just 54 percent of American adults today support legalized gay marriage.
It’s unclear why support for same-sex marriage has dropped, but some commentators have suggested it stems from the radicalization of the LGBTQ agenda pushed by Democrats and the far left, which has gone far beyond the mere parameters of legalizing gay unions.
“Relatable” host Allie Beth Stucky recently observed on X, “The sexual revolution got arrogant after its overwhelming gay marriage success. After convincing people that a husband could become a wife, they were sure they could convince us that a man can become a woman. For most people, that was the bridge too far. Now people are looking back and seeing that gender confusion actually began a long time ago.”
Regardless of public sentiment, the Supreme Court’s decision not to hear Davis’s challenge to Obergefell ensures that same-sex marriage is here to stay.
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