Several Kentucky counties initially refused to marry similar-sex couples. In response, Kentucky reformed its marriage license types and removed the title of the county clerk from the licenses. However, as of March 2020, the Irion County clerk acknowledged she would problem marriage licenses to similar-intercourse couples and the form out there on the office's website was not gender particular and acknowledged no restrictions as to the genders of the candidates. In 2015, John Lewis, a leader of the civil rights movement and a chairman of the SNCC, welcomed the outcome of the landmark civil rights case of Obergefell v. Hodges through which the Supreme Court of the United States struck down all state bans on similar-intercourse marriage, stating that "races do not fall in love, genders don't fall in love-folks fall in love". Post-Obergefell, six states have, occasionally, tried to deny same-intercourse couples full adoption rights to various degrees. In 2006, the Federal Marriage Amendment, which might have prohibited states from recognizing identical-sex marriages, was accepted by the Senate Judiciary Committee on a occasion-line vote and was debated by the full Senate, but was in the end defeated in both houses of Congress.
