#obergefell — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #obergefell, aggregated by home.social.
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"No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were."
-- Justice Anthony Kennedy, June 26th 2015
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Today, my heart goes out to all the couples celebrating the 11th anniversary of the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges US Supreme Court case that legalized same-sex marriage here in the US.
Solidarity today and every day ✊
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"Meet the Seattle woman behind a national effort to end same-sex marriage
Earlier this year, a national coalition of conservatives unveiled a new campaign to turn back the clock on same-sex marriage.
In a promotional video, supporters of the 'Greater Than Campaign' said they want to push the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse its landmark 2015 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriages nationwide.
The effort challenges a decade of established legal rights for same-sex couples, rights that continue to enjoy broad public support. In Washington, marriage equality protections go back even further, to a 2012 law upheld by voters.
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Little-known locally, Faust has gained prominence in national conservative circles, spearheading the effort to undo Obergefell. She was featured in the kickoff video for the campaign against same-sex marriage alongside leaders of the Heritage Foundation and the Southern Baptist Convention, among others.
Last September, Faust spoke at the National Conservatism Conference, an annual gathering affiliated with the Christian nationalism movement that also featured U.S. senators and top Trump administration officials."
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"Just last week, a coalition of 47 conservative anti-LGBTQ+ organizations banded together to launch the Greater Than Campaign. Its express goal is to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges."
~ Todd Beeton
#Trump #Epstein #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #authoritarianism #SameSexMarriage #Obergefell
/20https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/greater-than-obergefell-gay-marriage
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(continued from /18)
"because they're already primed to see that when their leaders have scandal to touch not God's anointed, to believe in forgiveness, to not trust the media narrative, right? Don't trust the reporters. Trust what we're telling you from the stage."
#Trump #Epstein #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #authoritarianism #SameSexMarriage #Obergefell
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"There is a trail of leaders who have credible allegations or convictions of SA-ing children or protecting men who do, and they're still hailed. as faithful gospel preachers. ...So the reason why so many of these people just don't give a crap about what's happening in the Epstein files" (continued in /19)
#Trump #Epstein #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #authoritarianism #SameSexMarriage #Obergefell
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"Like, how do these Christians who claim to worship Jesus and follow Jesus, how do they not see this and get outraged?
And one of the key things you have to realize to folks who did not grow up like how me and April grew up in the white evangelical world, very conservative, is that this is how the white evangelical world operates."
#Trump #Epstein #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #authoritarianism #SameSexMarriage #Obergefell
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"The people who are launching a campaign to overturn Obergefell because it harms the children ... suddenly they had nothing to say they had nothing to say about actual children being harmed by one of the world's most prolific um um uh you know. ...
A lot of people might be saying, I don't get it."
~ Tim Whitaker
#Trump #Epstein #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #authoritarianism #SameSexMarriage #Obergefell
/16https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/maga-hypocrisy-outrage-over-bad-bunny
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This montage is a who’s who of right wing well-funded influencers #Obergefell Note #Newsweek senior editor-at-large Josh Hammer who’s now subsidized by the right-wing Salem Network. Also…pretty sure none of these influencers care about how “harmful to children” the people in the EpsteinFiles were
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:34ydeurdtukrpzjjelklch4y/post/3mdlxk5snr225 -
Noting that the Supreme Court refused to be baited into taking Kim Davis' (and Matt Staver's) attempt to nullify Obergefell and same-sex marriage, Chris Geidner says that a lesson we should take seriously from this event is:
"The Mat Stavers of the world — and he is certainly not alone — will not stop."
#SupremeCourt #Obergefell #SameSexMarriage #KimDavis #MattStaver #LibertyCounsel
https://www.lawdork.com/p/kim-davis-is-done-scotus-denies-marriage-review
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At the very least, it means that there aren't 4 justices willing to revisit #Obergefell and give states the opportunity to ban #GayMarriage.
Who was the third vote to revisit Obergefell -- was it Roberts, who'd dissented in the original case?
#USPol
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/10/nx-s1-5604293/scotus-rejects-gay-marriage-appeal -
The Supreme Court has rejected a last-ditch effort by Kentucky clerk Kim Davis to overturn the 2015 ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. Davis appealed after being ordered to pay $100,000 damages for denying a marriage license, arguing Obergefell v. Hodges infringes on religious liberty. The court’s brief order signals it will not revisit or undermine the landmark 5-4 decision, which guarantees equal marriage rights under the Constitution. But with Justice Thomas calling to revisit Obergefell and the court’s shifting conservative lean, future challenges to LGBTQ+ rights remain possible. Will marriage equality withstand the evolving judicial landscape? More: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/supreme-court-declines-to-reconsider-same-sex-marriage-decision-0c01b1a5?st=Ph8oP1&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink #LGBTQ #MarriageEquality #SupremeCourt #Obergefell #LegalRights #ConservativeJudiciary
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🚨🚨 #SCOTUS rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide 🚨🚨
The #SupremeCourt on Monday rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized #SameSexMarriage nationwide.
The justices turned away an appeal from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to #SameSex couples after the high court’s 2015 ruling in #Obergefell v. Hodges.
#law #LGBTQ #HumanRights #love
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-50eb4ad421911696e742d8c4fb4962fd?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-10-Breaking+News -
Among the cases the justices are expected to consider is a longshot appeal from Kim Davis, the fmr Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples following the court’s 2015 ruling in #Obergefell v. Hodges.
Davis is trying to get the court to overturn a lower court order for her to pay $360k in damages & attorney’s fees to a couple whom she denied a marriage license.
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#SCOTUS weighs longshot appeal to overturn decision legalizing #SameSexMarriage nationwide
A call to overturn the landmark Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide was on the agenda Friday for the justices’ closed-door conference.
#law #Obergefell #LGBTQ #discrimination #bigotry #HumanRights #ActivistCourt
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-kim-davis-cf8de49d51872e55eda46947f8ea8231 -
I am nervous. Scared even.
But part of me wants SCOTUS to hear Davis’ renewed objections so they will either decide and tell me to my face that I’m a second class citizen or reaffirm my marriage and tell that hateful dumb bitch to fuck off again.
Gift 🎁 article
#scotus #gay #equality #marriage #law #uslaw #uspol #samesex #obergefell #gift #giftarticle
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"It would be the crowning triumph of Thomas’s vengeance-fueled career on the Supreme Court. For the rest of us, the country would swiftly and permanently become unrecognizable."
#SupremeCourt #ClarenceThomas #CivilRights #Obergefell #BirthControl
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"Conservatives have been gunning for substantive due process ever since the courts used it to help dismantle the institutions of American apartheid and extend civil liberties to heretofore largely disenfranchised groups. Gut it and everything is on the table—from Griswold and privacy to Obergefell and marriage equality to birth control to desegregation."
~ Charles Pierce
#SupremeCourt #ClarenceThomas #CivilRights #Obergefell #BirthControl
/1https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a68115683/clarence-thomas-substantive-due-process/
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CW: uspol; marriage equality
That means that Obergefell v. Hodges—the landmark case that legalized same-sex marriage in 2015—is squarely in the crosshairs. But people don’t want to believe it. And it’s making me want to walk into the mountains with no water supply.
— Imani GandiImani predicted that Roe v. Wade would be overturned long before folks wanted to hear it. Now she's sounding the alarm for marriage equality.
It was a good 10 years. I hope California keeps it legal.
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I’ve been married. To a woman. And we had two children. I know the sacrifice you make between what you want and what the children need. The latter comes first. I would make a good mate because of that.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/so-the-gay-witch-hunt-is-on-again-41df063e38f7?sk=e0c927d3b16402bff9c69ff308b010f6 -
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and the many authoritarian (and, let's face it, racist even when they pretended to be otherwise) Catholics outside the South who were enraged when the federal government recognized reproductive rights for women.
From that history to where we are now with Trump and MAGA is a straight line. These folks have been and are the driving force of the Republican party for years now.
#Obergefell #SameSexMarriage #SupremeCourt #ReligiousFreedom #KimDavis #CivilRights
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This was the genesis of the Religious Right, with Catholic activists then seizing the opportunity to build on the rage of white segregationist Christians in the South by introducing the issue of abortion, about which evangelicals had never cared, to cement an alliance between white Southern evangelicals (continued in /7)
#Obergefell #SameSexMarriage #SupremeCourt #ReligiousFreedom #KimDavis #CivilRights
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When the federal government began threatening to deny federal funding to church-based schools like Bob Jones University as long as the university refused to abide by civil rights laws, white churches across the South began to organize to "defend" their supposedly violated "religious freedom" to discriminate.
#Obergefell #SameSexMarriage #SupremeCourt #ReligiousFreedom #KimDavis #CivilRights
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White evangelical Christians, especially in the South, had long taught that "God" chose to make the races separate, with Black people consigned by God to serve white people.
When the federal government recognized the rights of people of color, there was a huge hullabaloo among white Southern evangelicals, who claimed that their religious freedom (to discriminate) was being violated, trampled on.
#Obergefell #SameSexMarriage #SupremeCourt #ReligiousFreedom #KimDavis #CivilRights
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This cabal has shown great sympathy with the argument that "Christians" are being "oppressed" when minority groups receive rights that "Christians" do not want to accept.
Though many of us want to forget this or haven't chosen to learn it in the first place, this all began with huge white evangelical hostility to civil rights legislation in the 1950s and 1960s recognizing basic rights of African Americans.
#Obergefell #SameSexMarriage #SupremeCourt #ReligiousFreedom #KimDavis #CivilRights
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This is the core of the argument that Republicans want to drive to the Supreme Court, because they know that if the case makes it to the Supreme docket, the right-wing cabal controlling the court will likely side with them.
That cabal is made up entirely of right-wing Catholics (except Gorsuch, raised Catholic but now Episcopalian), many affiliated with the secretive theocratic Catholic cult Opus Dei.
#Obergefell #SameSexMarriage #SupremeCourt #ReligiousFreedom #KimDavis
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"Since the moment the Obergefell decision was handed down, Republicans have toyed with the broader argument that the mere fact of same-sex marriage’s existence inherently oppresses Christians by making them feel bad."
~ Amanda Marcotte
I'm a Christian. And when you are given the fake "right" to "marry," I am being oppressed.
#Obergefell #SameSexMarriage #SupremeCourt #ReligiousFreedom #KimDavis
/1https://www.salon.com/2025/08/13/the-christian-right-claims-marriage-equality-is-persecution/
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Man, I thought we'd never have to hear from her again: "the Christian right has spent decades redefinining disagreement as persecution."
https://www.salon.com/2025/08/13/the-christian-right-claims-marriage-equality-is-persecution/
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Well well well
Today in FAFO, two interesting news pieces:
- Maxwell’s old cell mate says GM spilled lots of dirt on 🍊. The meth head is willing to testify.
- Gay dating apps said they will release names of GOP users if #SCOTUS overturns #Obergefell .
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"Yes, they're coming for same-sex marriage. This was always part of the right-wing plan. And it won't stop here."
~ Jill Filipovic
#Trump #Republicans #Obergefell #SameSexMarriage #WhiteChristianNationalism #homophobia #MAGA #SupremeCourt #contraception #women #BirthControl #ReproductiveRights
/7https://jill.substack.com/p/yes-theyre-coming-for-same-sex-marriage
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“They won’t overturn same sex marriage!”
That’s what we all thought about Roe. We didn’t believe it could fall, until it did.
Please don’t become complacent.
The right wing christofascists have seized power & want to undo decades of hard won civil rights.
Hegseth has been platforming a Nationalist who believes women shouldn’t be allowed to vote.
Taking away same sex marriage is absolutely something they would do.
Protect Obergefell at all costs.
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Kim Davis, the disgraced Kentucky clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples, is appealing to the Supreme Court to reconsider Obergefell v. Hodges decision that ensured marriage equality.
#lbgtqrights
#Obergefell
#SCOTUS
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-formally-asked-overturn-landmark-same-sex/story?id=124465302