Reporting from CNN, “A federal judge said Friday that former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis violated two same-sex couples’ constitutional rights when she refused to marry them while in office in 2015. In court documents filed Friday, US District Judge David Bunning dismissed Davis’ motion for summary judgment in civil suits brought against her by two same-sex couples to whom she had refused to grant marriage licenses. … The issues now before the jury are how much the plaintiffs will get in compensatory damages and whether or not they should be awarded punitive damages, Gartland told CNN. … Liberty Counsel, the conservative legal group representing Davis, said in a statement that they ‘will continue to argue that she is not liable for damages because she was entitled to a religious accommodation (which Governor [Matt] Bevin and the legislature granted),’ adding that the case could be heading for the US Supreme Court.”
Watch out for this sleeper case! You’re G.D. right, this is going to SCOTUS, and this is just the type of case the conservative theocratic justices have been looking for to reverse gay marriage. Mark my words, f***tards! Look! The conservative justices don’t have to wait for the perfect anti-LGBTQ rights case to come before them to act. They merely need a case that remotely touches on the subject. Not sure how aware you people might be about the machinations of the High Court, but it is pretty much a free for all. They can agree to hear a case, and then they can judge it on the particular merits that lead it from the trial courts to the appellate courts to the Supreme Court, or they can take the same case and use it to restrict or expand the merits of the case or a broader issue. It is quite conceivable they will grant certiorari for this case. Instead of deciding on the narrow question if Davis has a First Amendment right not to perform her civic duty by denying a marriage license to same-sex couples, they can expand the question to whether same-sex marriage is a constitutionally protected right at all. They can decide to answer another question of a case from the one initially before the Court. In short, justices could hear arguments about ABC and then decide to rule on ABC and XYZ. They’ve done it before. The supermajority conservatives justices simply need a case that gets them a foot in the door to reverse gay marriage and roll back LGBTQ rights. And don’t think stare decisis is going to protect Obergefell v. Hodges. Roe v. Wade is about to go, and that is a 50-year-old case. The ink has yet to dry on Obergefell compared to Roe.
Senator Cornyn’s questioning of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson over gay marriage says it all. RepubliKKKlans are laser-focused on rolling back LGBTQ rights because in their minds protecting the rights of the minority from the bigotry of the majority is not only unimportant but contrary to the founding of the nation. No f***ing person or government authority forces straight cis men or women to marry each other. You know, these people — conservatives — used to make the same arguments about enslaved people and Blacks, particularly white people and black people, could not marry each other (see Loving v. Virginia, which they’ll be coming for soon enough). Still, through the wisdom of the ages, the courts decided that people cannot be discriminated against for their immutable characteristics (e.g., skin color or gender). We have yet to add sexual orientation to the list, and RepubliKKKlans will ensure it never is. In the meantime, they are coming for gay rights. Mark my words, morons. Mark them well!
I have been saying for years now that they are coming for your rights next! Mark my words, f***tards! “Where the law ends, tyranny begins!” SCOTUS is about to undo their own rule of law — again! They are uninterested in protecting minorities against the bigotry of the majority. Thus, they encourage tyranny. Welcome to stupid America!