Former Trump campaign senior advisor, lobbyist, and CNN commentator David Urban attacked former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for trying to sow fear and discontent by saying that the Supreme Court could overturn marriage equality.If you keep telling us the sky is falling, eventually people will stop listening, Urban wrote in a USA Today column this week. Marriage equality isnt in danger. Were that to change, Americans on the left, center, and right would come to its defense. Related The hidden story of how a gay immigrant started the nations first battle over same-sex marriage The country deserves better.Urban, who advised on Trumps 2016 campaign for president, was referring to comments Clinton made in August on the Raging Moderates podcast, where she said that the Supreme Court will do to gay marriage what they did to abortion. They will send it back to the states. Insights for the LGBTQ+ community Subscribe to our briefing for insights into how politics impacts the LGBTQ+ community and more. Subscribe to our Newsletter today She then told anybody in a committed relationship out there in the LGBTQ community You ought to consider getting married. Because I dont think theyll undo existing marriages, but I fear that they will undo the national right, and so, fewer than half of the states will recognize gay marriage.Urban took issue with that, citing a survey from Republican pollsters at Centerline America who found that 72% of registered voters this past June said they support marriage equality (that support dropped to 61% when people were allowed to pick undecided as an answer). He said that even a majority of Republicans support marriage equality, citing a poll from The Hill, although a poll from Gallup this year shows that only a minority of Republicans do, and their support has been decreasing since 2022. Urban also discussed the legal case that people are worried the Court will use to overturn Obergefell, Rowan County, Kentucky, Clerk Kim Davis lawsuit. Legal experts have generally said that the case isnt a good vehicle for overturning Obergefell, and Urban cites a conservative legal scholar who said that overturning Obergefell would be unlikely because the Court would be destroying marriages and undoing family relationships. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett made a similar argument earlier this month, and even Clinton said that she didnt believe that the Court would break apart marriages, just stop requiring states to continue to perform marriages for same-sex couples.But Urbans goal with his piece wasnt to assure LGBTQ+ people that marriage equality is safe; it was to attack Democrats for bringing it up in the first place (he cited no major Democrats who have expressed concern for marriage equality other than Clinton, who was asked about it on a podcast): The chicken little warnings arent grounded in reality.So why raise the specter of rights being torn away when the law and the culture are moving in the opposite direction? Because fear works. Fear raises money. Fear keeps Americans angry, divided, and distrustful, the former Trump campaign advisor wrote. He then said that there are important debates ahead over religious liberty, over equal treatment under the law, and they matter. Davis lawsuit is about religious rights, and religious freedom was also the reason cited by Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito in their 2020 dissenting opinion calling for the Court to end marriage equality.The law is being followed, Urban wrote. His piece was published just three days after Texas moved to allow county judges to refuse to marry same-sex couples.Transgender rights are under much heavier attack than marriage equality and have been for the past several years, and LGBTQ+ legal experts dont think that marriage is in any immediate danger. The Supreme Court is set to decide next month whether it will even hear Davis appeal. The Court gets about 10,000 petitions a year asking it to deliberate on various cases the court agrees to hear only 75 to 85 of these cases,according to The Judicial Learning Center. Even Bill Powell, the lawyer representing the same-sex couple in Davis case, thinks the Supreme Court wont hear her case.Not a single judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals showed any interest in Davis rehearing petition, and we are confident the Supreme Court will likewise agree that Davis arguments do not merit further attention, Powell said.Subscribe to theLGBTQ Nation newsletterand be the first to know about the latest headlines shaping LGBTQ+ communities worldwide.