LGBT News BREAKING: 10th Circuit Rejects Utah's Ban On Same-Sex Marriage

This is actually great news. I live in Wyoming which falls under the 10th circuit, we don't know yet how this might affect us, but it probably won't mean anything until the Supreme court rules.
Wyoming has a case in state court (Courage v Wyoming), that will only have two steps, the district court, and the Wyoming Supreme Court. It is now a race to see which one wins first.

 

Utah's Attorney General will move this case to the Supreme Court and lose there too.

 

This is great news!

Can we please make it nationwide already? This is probably the messiest gay marriage map ever.

 

This is far more major than just Utah. The 10th Circuit court specifically said no state can forbid gay marriage, and, while that only applies to the states in their circuit, this is a legal system based on precedent. With such a precedent set, any subsequent case in another circuit on the same issue has to be ruled the same way. The Supreme Court, meanwhile, has to decide whether to take the case. If they do not, this decision goes into effect, and the gay marriage battle is down to a series of judicial actions whos' outcome is predetermined. If they do, they have to rule based on their own prior decisions, and every judge so far has interpreted those to require the legalization of gay marriage. That ruling would apply nationwide, too. So, now SCOTUS is backed into a corner. Even if they refuse to touch this case, we still come out victorious.

This is easily as huge as Windsor itself was.

 

it is a messy map but look at all that pretty gay blue!!!

 

All of these cases will have the same outcome, the bans will get overturned. I'm sure that a SCOTUS ruling will legalize gay marriage nationwide.