Ten years after the Supreme Court extended marriage rights to same-sex couples nationwide, the justices this fall will consider for the first time whether to take up a case that explicitly asks them to overturn that decision.
Kim Davis, the former Kentucky county clerk who was jailed for six days in 2015 after refusing to issue marriage licenses to a gay couple on religious grounds, is appealing a $100,000 jury verdict for emotional damages plus $260,000 for attorneys fees.
In a petition for writ of certiorari filed last month, Davis argues First Amendment protection for free exercise of religion immunizes her from personal liability for the denial of marriage licenses.
So could she have refused to serve a black person or an Asian person based on her personal religious views that she doesn’t like black or Asian people?
Like we’re not going to see interracial marriage struck down after they do away with the filthy, eeevil gaysex.
Mark my words, it will be under the guise of “national security” and it will start with a big spiel from the administration how “terrorists” are getting into the country by marrying “US citizens” (even though imgiration hasn’t worked that way in like, a century) and they will swear it’s not about race… while using race to identify these scary terrorists who want to eat your children and rape your pets.
We won’t, but for specific, self-serving reasons.
In his opinion for Dobbs, Thomas listed several cases he wants to revisit, including Obergefell. Notably absent was Loving, which is the case that set interracial marriage in stone. Thing is, if you follow his reasoning, Loving should fall to the exact same logic. The fact that he left it out is telling.
I don’t believe for a moment that everything isn’t on the table for repeal, destruction or revocation. It just takes a phone call and a new boat and Thomas will not just revisit Loving, he and his cohorts will use it like toilet paper overnight. They just can’t move too fast, they have to give the population time to adapt to changes or wait until everyone is too distracted by some manufactured crisis. Literally, our only hope is they misjudge or move too fast and create an actual armed movement marching on Washington. (Like, they would need some kind of huge army deployed to DC to protect the president and cabinet and courts in that case… can you imagine that?)
And it doesn’t matter if Thomas is in an interracial marriage, the ruling class has proven time and time again they are immune to consequence and law.
I think they’ll try everything to push for a supermajority next cycle to just write a new “more christian” constitution, á la Fidesz, even if that requires them to break laws.
We’ve already seen them make soft attempts at it by “accidentally” removing chunks of the constitution from the .gov websites, and this is how they started exploring the feasibility of most of their current overreaches, with probing attacks, with “soft” insurrections, with suggestions of doing the things they’re actively doing now, just to gauge how far along we are and what kind of pushback they would actually get. (Hint: it’s not enough. Sit the fuck down Booker, Schumer, Jeffries… you’re useless fucks that need to be hauled out like the garbage you are.)
I’d love to see Clarence Thomas go home to his ugly bulldog white wife, and explain that he voted to abolish their marriage, and now that it’s an official abomination, she must move out of the house immediately.
In her mind, she does.