When a very conservative-leaning Supreme Court rejects, without comment, an appeal to the decision to legalize same-sex marriage it may be a sign that it’s time to stop trying to resurrect a controversy on the issue of same-sex marriage in America.
The High Court refused to consider an appeal from Kim Davis, the court clerk in Kentucky who in 2015 refused to issue a marriage license to a same-sex couple after the Court had ruled that it was unconstitutional to ban gay marriages.
Kim Davis took a stand and said it was against her religious beliefs to issue the marriage license to a same-sex couple. At the height of the national controversy that erupted, I was firm in my belief that if it was against Kim Davis’ religious beliefs to issue a marriage license to a same-sex couple then she should have quit her job and work in a job that was more congruent with her Christian beliefs. If your job conflicts with your religious beliefs then you get another job. It is not appropriate to expect your employer to change to fit your beliefs. If you’re a Christian you couldn’t go to work at a strip club and go on stage and dance fully clothed because your religious beliefs do not allow you to take your clothes off - you get another job.
During the controversy over Davis refusing to issue the marriage license to the same-sex couple, many were critical saying the gay couple was just trying to get publicity. I think it was a case of their need to get a marriage license and it was actually Kim Davis who was grandstanding trying to get publicity for her religious beliefs and the idea that Christians are being persecuted.
With the Supreme Court rejecting Kim Davis’ appeal, she is apparently on the hook to pay the same-sex couple $360,000 in damages and attorney’s fees. Good! Kim Davis deserves to be punished for refusing to do her job and using the opportunity to push her Christian beliefs on others.
There are too many Americans who are dedicated to the pursuit of telling other Americans how to lead their lives. I love to bring up the contradiction of conservatives who want to use the power of the government to tell someone who they can, and cannot, marry. One of the foundations of conservative ideology is less government involvement and more power to the individual. Supporting any laws that ban same-sex marriage defy that foundation of conservative ideology.
I am proud of this conservative-leaning Supreme Court for refusing the temptation to appease MAGA conservative Christians and refusing to consider the appeal from Kim Davis. People who are on a crusade to impose their specific beliefs and their political views on others need not be rewarded in any fashion.
This is America and if two men or two women want to marry each other it is not for other Americans to try to stop them.
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