The Supreme Court is now considering whether or not to take on the issue of gay marriage. If they decide to take it up and the 2013 rulings on DOMA and Prop. 8 are any indication, they could end up making gay marriage legal everywhere:
THE NOTE – Hovering over the Supreme Court’s 2014 docket of interesting cases is the blockbuster issue of gay marriage. According to ABC’s Supreme Court watcher ARIANE DE VOGUE, the justices will meet behind closed doors today to discuss whether to hear one or more cases challenging marriage bans in five states. “This set of issues is the greatest civil rights issue of our time,” says former acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal, who is representing one set of challengers. Since the Supreme Court’s historic gay marriage rulings in 2013, three appellate courts have struck bans in five states. In an unusual circumstance, Katyal — and the other challengers — have asked the Supreme Court to step in despite having won in the lower court.
WHAT COULD HAPPEN? We are not likely to learn today whether the justices will decide to take up the issue of gay marriage, DE VOGUE notes. They may announce their decision later in the week, or they could put it off until additional lower courts have weighed in. But couples across the country, some of whom have spent their entire lives on the issue, believe it’s inevitable that the Court will rule this term. On the other side are those who fear that the Court is poised to wipe away traditional marriage. Others are sympathetic to marriage equality but believe the courts should stay out. They believe the momentum is in the states and that is where it should stay.