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Despite Rumors, SCOTUS Isn’t About to Overturn Gay Marriage
Queue the liberal freak out: The Supreme Court is going to overturn gay marriage!
But, no, that’s not the news. The news is that Kim Davis, the former Kentucky clerk that refused to issue marriage certificates to gay couples, has petitioned the Supreme Court to review a lower court decision that found that she had violated the gay couples’ rights.
Her petition argues that government employees shouldn’t be forced to act against their religious beliefs — and, while she’s at it, she’s also asking the justices to overturn gay marriage as a federal right.
It’s very unlikely the Court takes her case. They already denied her 2020 appeal, and nothing about the legal landscape has shifted in her favor since. Support for gay marriage enjoys a 68% approval rating in the U.S., although Republican support for gay marriage has dropped by 14% since 2021.
My read? That drop is because gay rights are increasingly conflated with trans rights — which are not the same thing. The spectacle of naked drag queens in front of kindergartners has hurt the gay rights movement and gay families who want nothing to do with that. Who’d have guessed?
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