The Supreme Court on Monday said it will not hear a case from a Kentucky clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses for same-sex couples, but two conservative dissenters in the court’s landmark 2015 decision repeated their criticism of the “ruinous consequences for religious liberty,” the Washington Post reports.
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