Right-wing media endorse a potential Supreme Court challenge to same-sex marriage

Various right-wing media figures have maintained a veil of denial and skepticism regarding threats to Obergefell. Walsh and Wheeler, though advocating for Obergefell’s fall, both expressed doubt that it would be overturned. Wheeler asserted that the case was “probably not going to be heard by the Supreme Court,” while Walsh said it “won’t be overturned,” noting that they won’t likely take the case and if they do, “it’s very hard to see Kavanaugh and Gorsuch and Roberts voting to overturn gay marriage.” The Washington Examiner published the headline “The invented threat to gay marriage” for a piece that tried to absolve Trump of liability for that threat. It argued: “While I think it’s unlikely that the Supreme Court will grant Davis’s petition for review, even if it did, it still wouldn’t guarantee that gay marriage would be overturned. Considering Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s past writings, Chief Justice John Roberts’s long-standing aversion to overturning precedent, and Justice Neil Gorsuch’s past support for gay rights, there is a very real possibility that this court would uphold gay marriage even were it to review the case.” [Blaze Media, 8/12/25; The Daily Wire, The Matt Walsh Show, 8/12/25; The Washington Examiner, 8/14/25]