In the wake of the Obergefell ruling: Religious Right groups dramatically ramped up their arguments that 'religious freedom' gives them the right to discriminate against LGBTQ people (and others) and to deny them access to services and health care.

Three years after Kentucky clerk Kim Davis was in the news for denying same-sex couples marriage licenses, a New York town clerk similarly cited religious beliefs when she discriminated against Dylan Toften and Thomas Hurd and refused to grant them a license. The clerk apologized this month.

In late January, Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin’s attorneys filed legal documents arguing that the state should not have to pay nearly $225,000 in legal fees that accrued during former Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis’ court battle over her refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.