The Court did the right thing in denying cert, and people across our nation can breathe a little easier today but threats to marriage equality will likely continue, so we must not assume marriage, or any rights enjoyed by or due to any marginalized community, is safe. Kim Davis should have lived up to her oath and duties as a public servant by serving everyone in Rowan County, Kentucky; instead, she chose to use her faith to persecute others. It is past time for others in our nation to understand that a person’s faith is not harmed by others who are different. Someone exercising a civil right does not prevent a believer from continuing to practice their faith at home or in their house of worship. As the Sixth Circuit said when denying Kim Davis’s appeal, the Bill of Rights ‘would serve little purpose if it could be so freely ignored whenever an official’s conscience so dictates,. I hope the Supreme Court halts further attempts by public officials to use their personal faith to deny others their civil and human rights.” ~ Jim Obergfell, American civil rights activist and lead plaintiff in the 2015 US Supreme Court case Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage throughout the country, on the SCOTUS decision.
[H/t to Bob.]
I should be, and AM grateful for this Court Response. But I have to ask myself how many more times will all those Millions of others with or without Families, have to go through this again, and again?