(CNN) – The U.S. Supreme Court is being asked to once again take up the issue of same-sex marriage and overturn a 10-year-old decision.
Kim Davis has filed an appeal to the high court.
Davis is the former clerk in Rowan County, Kentucky, who refused court orders to issue same-sex marriage licenses in 2015 due to her religious beliefs.
In 2023, a federal jury awarded a gay couple $100,000 in a case against her.
It’s been 10 years since the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in the Obergefell v. Hodges case to extend marriage rights to same-sex couples across the nation.
Now it will consider whether to take up Davis’ appeal in which she is asking for the overturn of that decision.
A recent Gallup poll found nearly 70% of Americans say marriages of same-sex couples should be recognized by