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Kim Davis
November 10, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Supreme Court Surprisingly Makes the Right Call on Same-Sex Marriage
The Supreme Court has rejected Kim Davis’s challenge to the landmark case.
August 11, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Clarence Thomas’s Most Terrifying Wish Is About to Come True
The Supreme Court has been asked to hear a new case about the future of same-sex marriage.
September 14, 2016
Sarah Jones
Illinois has its own Kim Davis. (Not that it needed one.)
October 3, 2015
Christopher Hale
Pope Francis's Public Transformation on LGBT Rights
September 30, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Pope Francis Met Kim Davis, Confounding the Culture Warriors Once Again
September 2, 2015
Brian Beutler
Throw Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis in Jail
She must be punished severely for denying marriage licenses to gay couples

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