The US Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a case challenging the constitutional right to same-sex marriage.

The conservative-dominated court, as is customary, did not provide any explanation for its decision to reject the case.

Kim Davis, a former county clerk in Kentucky who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, had asked the top court to overturn its landmark 2015 ruling legalizing gay marriage.

Davis was ordered to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to a gay couple who were among those she refused a marriage license.

Conservatives have a 6-3 majority on the Supreme Court and Davis’s appeal of the award had raised concerns among the LGBTQ community that the court — which struck down the constitutional right to abortion three years ago — may agree to revisit

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