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RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — The United States Supreme Court may take up a case that could potentially lead to the overturning of the landmark Obergefell ruling, the case that legalized nationwide same-sex marriage in 2015.
The challenge is coming from a former court clerk that made headlines in 2015 for denying marriage licenses to same-sex couples. She’s now asking the Supreme Court to rehear arguments in the case, which could lead to them overturning the decision. Same sex marriage rights could then fall into the hands of individual states.
Equality NC, an LGBTQ+ rights group, says it’s disheartening that these marriages could be on the chopping block.
“It’s an institution that our community has been seeking to be a part of, to build our families, to build just different benefits like partners being able to make decisions for each other in needs or emergency situations,” Eliazar Posada, the Executive Director, said.
Posada himself is planning to get married soon and says it’s daunting to know others may not get the same chance.
“This is a right that took years for our community, decades, for us to be able to win in the courts and change minds and hearts across the country,” he said. “It would be undoing decades of work that our community has been doing, hurting thousands of families that have sought to legally be married and have their marriage certificate.”
But some don’t want the option of legal marriage for same-sex couples.
“Marriage has been the union of one man and one woman for thousands of years, it’s always been the union between one man and one woman, that is a God-given right to marry according to principles that were created by God,” Tami Fitzgerald, the Founder and Executive Director of NC Values Coalition, said.
Fitzgerald founded NC Values Coalition on the basis of opposing same-sex marriage.
“Our view is that unions between same-sex couples are not marriage, they’re just agreements and contracts, but that the government has no right to redefine marriage, marriage should be and always has been the union between a man and a woman,” she said.
The Supreme Court has not made a decision on whether they’ll take up the case.
This year in Raleigh, Democrats filed a bill to protect same-sex marriage in the state, but it stalled almost immediately in committee without Republican support.
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Deana Harley
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