Supreme Court’s Decision on Revisiting Same-Sex Marriage

Recently, controversy has sparked in our country as a new case was presented to consider overturning the 2015 landmark case Obergefell v. Hodges, allowing same-sex partners to get married. As of Monday, November 10th, 2025, the Supreme Court denied the revisitation of the same-sex marriage case, a momentous win for those of the LGBTQ+ community and supporters of the community. By revisiting this case, the lives of the LGBTQ+ community could have been permanently altered, so denying the revisitation has been a huge source of relief for left-wing citizens and members of this community, as well as those looking to keep our country a true democracy with liberty and justice for all in regard to equal opportunity.

The proposition to revisit the Obergefell v. Hodges case was first introduced by former Kentucky marriage clerk Kim Davis, who refused to give marriage licenses to same-sex couples due to religious beliefs back in 2015 and was sued by a gay couple as well as fined for disobeying court orders on top of spending five nights in jail; this year she asked the court to revisit the 2015 case. Davis explained that as a Christian, it would violate her conscience to authorize a marriage that she viewed as against God's definition of marriage. Davis asked the Supreme Court to reconsider the ruling that required her to pay $300,000 for denying the marriage license, as well as going as far as to request that the case Obergefell v. Hodges be revisited and possibly overturned. This situation also involved and violated the 2022 Respect for Marriage Act, which guarantees recognition of same-sex marriages at both the federal and state levels, even if the Obergefell ruling were to be overturned. 

For this case to be revisited, four of the nine Supreme Court justices would have had to vote to reconsider the case. This threshold was not met, so the case was not revisited. A huge sigh of relief was breathed across the country for the LGBTQ+ community and supporters, as a majority were unsure as to whether this would be overturned after the court infamously overturned the abortion case Roe v. Wade back in 2022. Citizens were uncertain as to whether this controversial case would play out similarly to Roe v. Wade, upon which a majority of conservative justices overruled the case regarding women’s reproductive rights, and Justice Clarence Thomas also wrote a letter to the Supreme Court to reconsider the ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges. 

Overall, the Supreme Court declining to revisit the case Obergefell v. Hodges has been a huge source of relief for a wide range of people across the country. Whether you look at this case from a politically liberal or conservative perspective, as Americans, we should all agree that holding the ruling of equal rights for all and exhibiting genuine liberty is a key aspect of being American and appealing to the values of America.