Insistently Rejecting Marriage Permits For LGBTQ Couples In The US, Registrar In Kentucky Was Punished By The Supreme Court

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JAKARTA - The United States Supreme Court (US) rejected the Kentucky regional clerk's appeal, Kim Davis, in a same-sex marriage lawsuit.

The Supreme Court also stressed that it rejected Davis' request to review the 2015 constitutional decision in the messaging case v Hodges which led to the birth of the legal constitution for LGBTQ marriage in the US.

This case began when Davis, who is a regional clerk, refused to issue a marriage license to gay couples David Ermold and David Moore on religious grounds.

The couple was then jailed for six days. The jury then provided emotional compensation to the couple plus 260,000 US dollars for attorney fees.

Meanwhile, Davis, in the US Supreme Court's decision on Monday, was sentenced to a compensation fee of 100,000 US dollars.

"The rejection of a review by the Supreme Court confirms what we already know: same-sex couples have the constitutional right to marry, and Kim Davis' refusal to issue a marriage certificate that is contrary to Obergefell clearly violates these rights," said William Powell, lawyer for the couple David Ermold and David Moore. , quoted from ABC News, Tuesday 11 November.

In a petition for a certorari warrant filed in August, Davis argued that the protection of the First Amendment to religious freedom freed him of personal responsibility for refusing the issuance of a marriage certificate.

He also claimed that the court's decision in the Obergefell v Hodges case -- which bases the marriage rights on LGBTQ pairs on the protection of the 14th Amendment legal process -- is "legal fictition."

"The only thing that has changed since Obergefell's decision is that people across the country have seen how marriage equality provides protection for families and children, and that this protection strengthens our community, economy and society," Bonauto said in a statement. , said the lawyer for GLAD Law who fought for the marriage rights case in 2015, Mary Bonauto.

According to the Williams Institute at the UCLA Faculty of Law, it is estimated that there are 823,000 same-sex couples married in the US, including 591,000 who married after the US Supreme Court's decision in June 2015. Nearly one of the five married couples adopted a child under the age of 18.