Remember the hero of 2015, Kim Davis, who refused to do a same-sex wedding in a Kentucky courthouse right after Obergefell and was summarily thrown in jail for her religious convictions?
Believe it or not, Kim has spent the last decade in the legal weeds pushing to have her case heard. And now her petition has reached the highest court in the land.
From ABC News:
In a petition for writ of certiorari filed last month, Davis argues First Amendment protection for free exercise of religion immunizes her from personal liability for the denial of marriage licenses.
More fundamentally, she claims the high court's decision in Obergefell v Hodges -- extending marriage rights for same-sex couples under the 14th Amendment's due process protections -- was 'egregiously wrong.'
'The mistake must be corrected,' wrote Davis' attorney Mathew Staver in the petition. He calls Justice Anthony Kennedy's majority opinion in Obergefell 'legal fiction.'
To be clear, Davis's case is not merely one to clear her personal record. This is taking aim at the entire pro same-sex marriage ruling that was issued during the waning years of the Obama Administration.
This would be the first case, if accepted, to challenge the disastrous 2015 ruling against the true definition of marriage.
'If there ever was a case of exceptional importance,' Staver wrote, 'the first individual in the Republic's history who was jailed for following her religious convictions regarding the historic definition of marriage, this should be it.'
We'll see if SCOTUS takes the case.
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