The Supreme Court of the United States has declined to revisit its 2015 ruling that legalised same-sex marriage across the country.
The court turned away an appeal by Kim Davis, the former Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue marriage licences to same-sex couples on religious grounds.
The decision, made without comment on Monday, leaves in place a lower court order requiring her to pay about $360,000 in damages and legal costs to a couple denied a licence.
Davis had argued that her refusal was an exercise of conscience, but the courts found that as an elected official she had no right to use her own beliefs to override constitutional protections.
