Why the Supreme Court is unlikely to take up the legal challenge to gay marriage

The Supreme Court received a petition last month seeking to overturn its 2015 decision legalizing gay marriage nationwide, but the case is unlikely to be heard by the nine justices.

Former Kentucky clerk Kim Davis petitioned the high court in July asking for the justices to hear her appeal in a case where she claims her First Amendment religious rights should shield her from personal liability for denying marriage licenses to same-sex couples. A federal appeals court ruled against her earlier this year.

Davis garnered national headlines shortly after the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges when she refused to issue a marriage license for a same-sex couple, despite being ordered by a court to issue the marriage licenses. More than a decade later, she

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