40
US supreme court rejects call to overturn decision legalizing same-sex marriage
(www.theguardian.com)
For now
this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2025
40 points (100.0% liked)
Politics
11452 readers
74 users here now
In-depth political discussion from around the world; if it's a political happening, you can post it here.
Guidelines for submissions:
- Where possible, post the original source of information.
- If there is a paywall, you can use alternative sources or provide an archive.today, 12ft.io, etc. link in the body.
- Do not editorialize titles. Preserve the original title when possible; edits for clarity are fine.
- Do not post ragebait or shock stories. These will be removed.
- Do not post tabloid or blogspam stories. These will be removed.
- Social media should be a source of last resort.
These guidelines will be enforced on a know-it-when-I-see-it basis.
Subcommunities on Beehaw:
This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
Right, exactly. We know from Dobbs that this doesn’t mean a future bench won’t reopen the issue, and this is why we need Supreme Court reform YESTERDAY! Term limits and independent ethics boards would be a fantastic start.
Somehow, I doubt this has anything to do with it being a case on same sex marriage. The original case was a question of whether Davis was in the wrong for refusing to issue them due to personal belief (and something about 1st amendment rights for government employees). I genuinely doubt the conservative justices give a rat's ass about anyone but straight men considering past rulings.
Overturning that ruling would essentially mean, from my understanding, that government employees can refuse to do work that they disagree with even if it violates the rights of others. This specific case was about religion, but I could see this extending to refusing to issue marriage licenses to Rs/Ds, or refusing to issue marriage licenses to Muslim people, or even refusing to issue state IDs to women.
Of course, had this gone to the supreme court, the justices could have just said "yeah we don't like gay people now so we're going to strip them of their rights" since that's what the conservative justices seem to be interested in doing these days.
Anyway, sounds like we're safe for now, but that this was even a question shows how fucked up the country is.