The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an attempt to overturn the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling, which made same-sex marriage legal in the United States. The case was an appeal from Kim Davis, a Kentucky clerk who was jailed for contempt after refusing to grant marriage licenses to gay couples after the Obergefell ruling because of a religious objection.

After the Dobbs v. Jackson ruling in 2022 which overturned Roe v. Wade, LGBTQ advocates feared that the 6-3 conservative court may overturn same-sex marriage rights using language from the Dobbs ruling that found no explicit constitutional protection for right-to-privacy, on which both cases hinged.

At the time, right-wing Justice Clarence Thomas penned a concurrent opinion to the Dobbs ruling stating that the highest court should revisi

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