The Supreme Court declined to consider a case on same-sex marriage in the United States a decade after its landmark opinion granting same-sex couples the constitutional right to marry.

Instead, the country’s highest court decided to toss an appeal brought by former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis amid fear from LGBTQ advocates that the court would revisit the decision.

The court did not provide a reason for why it declined the petition brought by Davis who gained national attention in 2015 for defying a court and refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses because of her religious beliefs.

She had asked the Supreme Court to reverse the order requiring she pay more than $300,000 to a couple denied a marriage license as well as overturn the same-sex marriage decision.

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