The Supreme Court is scheduled to hold a private conference Friday to consider whether it will hear a challenge to its landmark 2015 ruling on same-sex marriage.
Jim Obergefell, the lead plaintiff in Obergefell v. Hodges — the 5-4 decision that guaranteed nationwide marriage rights for same-sex couples — told Newsweek on Thursday he is “worried” and warned that the precedent his case established now faces a “scary path.”
The challenge was brought by Kim Davis, a former clerk in Rowan County, Kentucky, who made national headlines after the Obergefell decision when she refused, on religious grounds, to issue a marriage license to a gay couple, David Moore and David Ermold.
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