Democrats and their journalist allies spent the last several years insisting the U.S. Supreme Court was hell-bent on making gay marriage illegal again. Many warned if Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris in 2024, the Court would be eager to overturn its 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, which established a nationwide right to gay marriage.
They were wrong, obviously.
The Supreme Court on Monday denied a request to revisit the Obergefell decision and abolish the right to gay marriage. Kim Davis, a former Kentucky official who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in 2015, had filed a petition urging the Court to overturn the gay-marriage decision. She was also seeking to reverse a lower court’s ruling ordering her to pay $360,000 to a gay couple who sued after she refused to give them a license.
A handful of protesters, including a group of stone-faced women dressed as handmaids from The Handmaid’s Tale, gathered outside the Court on Friday as the Court met to consider Davis’s petition. A trans-pride flag was spotted next to an upside-down American flag, the latter of which has been widely condemned by liberal commentators as a “jaw-dropping” and “disgusting” assault on our cherished democracy.
The Court did not comment on its decision to deny Davis’s appeal. Approving her request would have required the support of at least four of the nine justices.
The left-wing hysteria began in 2022 with the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case establishing a federal right to an abortion. Then-vice president Kamala Harris warned that empowering states to set abortion law would “clear the way for challenges to other fundamental rights,” such as gay marriage. The Washington Post wrote the Court’s ruling had “sent fear through the LGBTQ community,” which was bracing for a “rollback of rights.” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) insisted the Supreme Court wasn’t “just coming for abortion,” and warned “gay marriage” and “civil rights” could soon be abolished.
Liberals pounced and seized on Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas’s concurring opinion, which urged the Court to revisit its decision in Obergefell and other cases. Sarah Kate Ellis, president and CEO of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, called it a “blaring red alert for the LGBTQ community and for all Americans.” Clearer heads pointed out the Court’s other conservative justices did not share Thomas’s views, making it highly unlikely Obergefell would ever be reversed. Justice Samuel Alito, whose socially conservative views are widely reviled on the left, explicitly argued overturning Roe should have no bearing on the precedent established with respect to gay marriage—a view Alito reiterated last month.
In response, Democrats in Congress passed legislation in December 2022 to strengthen protections for gay marriage. Sens. Mark Warner (D., Va.) and Tim Kaine (D., Va.) argued the bill, known as the Respect for Marriage Act, was necessary because the Supreme Court was “willing to throw out decades of precedent” and “threaten important decisions like Obergefell.” New Jersey governor-elect Mikie Sherrill (D.), then a member of the House of Representatives, said the legislation was designed to thwart “right-wing extremists” who have “set their sights on other [Supreme Court] rulings upholding basic rights and freedoms.”
The fear-mongering reached a fever pitch in 2024 as Democrats outlined the litany of horrors they claimed would befall the country if Trump were elected. “You know gay rights are next,” Howard Stern said while interviewing Harris in 2024. She agreed. Phil Elliott of Time magazine argued there was “no reason to think” gay marriage would survive a second Trump administration. Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus suggested the Supreme Court was “plotting to chip away at the right to same-sex marriage.” In her speech at the Democratic convention, Michigan attorney general and married lesbian Dana Nessel said the Supreme Court could “pry this wedding ring from my cold, dead, gay hand.”
The panic did not abate after Trump was elected—after vowing to abolish gay marriage exactly zero times during the campaign. Zachary Wolf of CNN warned in August there are “new signs of a brewing backlash” against gay marriage, citing the Davis case, that could allow the Supreme Court to “take away what it gave same-sex partners 10 years ago.” Failed politician Hillary Clinton, who is often wrong, predicted the Supreme Court would overturn Obergefell and “undo the national right [to gay marriage],” and urged gay couples to get married before that happens. In a Politico column published in September, University of Baltimore law professor Kimberly Wehle insisted Davis’s petition “should be taken seriously” amid “signals” the Court was preparing to scrap gay marriage. Wehle has also written extensively about Trump’s so-called plot to abolish democracy.
Democratic politicians and their media allies are constantly shrieking about the unthinkable consequences of failing to put Democrats in charge. By now, many voters understand these warnings have little bearing on reality. How many times have we heard climate change is an “existential threat” to human existence? In a rare display of liberal honesty, billionaire activist Bill Gates broke with his fellow Democrats by admitting climate change “will not be the end of civilization.”
Oh well.
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