Kate Sosin

LGBTQ+ reporter

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There’s good news for LGBTQ+ married couples who want to stay married: The Supreme Court is not likely to overturn marriage equality any time soon.

Alarms were raised recently by an appeal to the Supreme Court by Kim Davis, a former Kentucky county clerk who spent six days in jail and paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines for refusing to issue same-sex couples licenses in her state. Davis has been on a mission to topple marriage equality since it became law in the Supreme Court’s landmark Obergefell v. Hodges decision in 2015.

Legal experts say that Davis’ punishment has given her some legal standing to sue — but that it’s still shaky. The Supreme Court is unlikely to take up her case, they say

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