Under the fourteenth amendment of the u.s Constitution, all states must license a marriage between two people of the same sex and recognize such a marriage if it was lawfully licensed and performed in another state. The court turned away an appeal filed by kim davis, a former county clerk in kentucky who was sued after refusing to issue a marriage license to a gay couple. In loving the court invalidated a prohibition on interracial marriage under both the equal protection clause and the due process clause In a brief, unsigned order, the justices rejected davis’ petition for review of a ruling by a federal appeals court upholding an award of $100,000 to a gay couple to whom she had refused to issue.
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