Kim Davis tries to clear her name after religious liberty Supreme Court rulings

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : With representation from Christian nonprofit organization Liberty Counsel, her lawyers said in a July 15 filing that the high court has decided three cases that are "sharpening and amplifying the free exercise rights" at the core of Davis's qualified immunity defense, which she argues are her sincerely held religious beliefs against same-sex marriage.
47% : Concerned with the court's agenda, the House passed a bill that would codify same-sex marriage into federal law, which saw 47 Republicans join Democrats to vote 267-157 in favor of the measure.
40% : In that case, Davis argued that she was immune from lawsuits filed by same-sex couples to whom she had denied marriage certificates under the doctrine of qualified immunity.
40% : "By choosing to privilege a novel constitutional right over the religious liberty interests explicitly protected in the First Amendment, and by doing so undemocratically, the court has created a problem that only it can fix," Thomas, joined by Alito, wrote.
39% : When she chose to follow her religious faith, she was sued almost immediately for violating the constitutional rights of same-sex couples.
39% : When the Supreme Court overturned the national right to abortion last month, it was Justice Clarence Thomas who provoked fears from same-sex marriage advocates and Democrats due to his concurrence saying that the high court should be open to revisiting other cases that fall under previous due process precedents, "including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell," the justice wrote.
37% : Lawyers for Kim Davis, the former Kentucky county clerk who received international attention for denying same-sex couples marriage licenses, say the 6-3 Republican-appointed majority on the Supreme Court could absolve her of wrongdoing after a series of religious liberty decisions.
35% : "Until then, Obergefell will continue to have 'ruinous consequences for religious liberty.'
32% : SUPREME COURT SHOULD 'CORRECT THE ERROR' ON CONTRACEPTION AND SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
28% : The court filings come as Davis and her attorneys have been fighting civil lawsuits from same-sex couples seeking damages for her defiance to grant marriage licenses for nearly seven years, despite the result in the landmark 2015 case Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage in the United States.
26% : Justice Samuel Alito authored the opinion in favor of Mississippi's ban on abortion after 15 weeks of gestation, though Alito did not suggest he was in favor of revisiting the due process precedents suggested by Thomas in his June 24 Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision.
23% : However, it was specifically in the October 2020 case of Davis v. Ermold that both Thomas and Alito suggested their view on the "problem" Obergefell created for religious liberty, despite both justices concurring in the denial of certiorari, which blocked the case from being heard by the nine justices.

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