The US Supreme Court has declined an opportunity to overturn the landmark precedent linked to recognizing a constitutional right to same gender marriage.

The court tossed aside the appeal that had roiled up LGBTQ advocates who feared the conservative court might be ready to revisit the decade-old decision.

Instead, the court denied an appeal from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky county clerk who now faces hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages and legal fees for refusing to issue marriage licenses after the court’s decision to enable same gender couples to be married.

The court did not explain the reasoning to deny this appeal, which had received outsized attention. This was in part due to the court’s 6-3 conservative majority three years back, overturning the Roe v. Wade and the constitutional right to abortion that the 1973 decision established.

Many were happy with the news and said that America is the land of the free, and people of all kinds had the right to live life on their own terms. Another mentioned how love won again today, and they hoped that it would stay in this way.