Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who claimed her religious convictions prevented her from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples seeking their right to marry under Obergefell v. Hodges. Justice Clarence Thomas used the occasion to criticize the Court’s earlier ruling in Obergefell that same-sex couples have a fundamental right to marry: “By choosing to privilege a novel constitutional right over the religious liberty interests explicitly protected in the First Amendment, and by doing so undemocratically, the court has created a problem that only it can fix.”

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