Few things could have done more social damage to the fabric of America than the 2015 Obergefell vs. Hodges case, in which the Supreme Court magically discovered a right to same-sex marriage in the Constitution that had slipped everyone’s notice until then. After that flawed decision, a brave Kentucky county clerk named Kim Davis stood up to it and refused to issue any marriage licenses to gay couples. The full weight of the LGBT mafia and the Democrat Party fell upon her and tried to destroy her. Kim Davis’s case is finally headed to federal court after all this time—and it could ultimately overturn the Obergefell decision.
People tend to forget, but most Americans were opposed to same-sex marriages just ten years ago. State after state tried to legalize same-sex marriage at the ballot box, but the voters always rejected the idea. Even in California—the gayest state imaginable—the voters said “No” when they were given the opportunity to pass a same-sex marriage law.
Go back and watch the 2008 Democrat primary election debates. Every single Democrat voiced firm opposition to same-sex marriage. That list of candidates included Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, and Joe Biden. Yes, even Barack Obama—whose hobby is gay sex—opposed same-sex marriage. They were all opposed to it because they believed correctly that it would tear apart the social fabric that has made up human civilization since the dawn of time.
The Obergefell decision violated Kim Davis’s deeply held Christian beliefs, so she drew a line in the sand. She refused to issue any marriage licenses to same-sex couples. An activist federal judge named David Bunning threw Davis in jail for exercising her religious beliefs. A gay couple sued Davis. Judge Bunning ordered Davis to pay them $100,000 and ordered her to pay an outrageous $240,000 in attorney fees just to be a d*ck.
Kim Davis is challenging that ruling and it is now headed to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Liberty Counsel, which has been representing Davis all this time, hopes to take the case all the way to the Supreme Court. Here’s why her attorneys believe that could happen.
The Obergefell decision invented a constitutional right to same-sex marriage out of thin air to support a political agenda. There is no reference to marriage in the Constitution at all, because the Founding Fathers understood that marriage was an institution of the church. Just as a reminder, when two soldiers were caught sodomizing each other in the camp one night, General George Washington had them publicly whipped and kicked them out of the Continental Army. The Founding Fathers were not confused about the whole “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” thing.
The question is whether this invented “constitutional right” that didn’t exist before 2015, and which is not written down anywhere, supersedes Kim Davis’s clearly written and articulated right to freedom of religion in the First Amendment.
That seems like a slam-dunk question if Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito get their hands on it. Even Chief Justice John Roberts is opposed to same-sex marriages. In his minority dissent to the Obergefell case, he wrote that the right that Obergefell invented out of thin air distorts “the meaning of marriage that has persisted in every culture throughout human history.”
Clarence Thomas noted in his dissent that Kim Davis might be the first victim of religious persecution because of Obergefell, but she certainly wouldn’t be the last. It’s been nine years since Davis was thrown in jail for refusing to violate her religious beliefs. Here’s hoping that the Supreme Court will finally grant her justice.