Well there you have it. Five states — Utah, Oklahoma, Virginia, Wisconsin and Indiana — are subject to this denial by the Supreme Court immediately because they already have rulings by the appeals court legalizing gay marriage.
And 6 other states — Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas, West Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina — will probably fall soon. And as a member of one of those states I find this whole thing outrageous.
BLOOMBERG – The U.S. Supreme Court rejected calls for a nationwide ruling on same-sex marriage, a rebuff that lets gays marry in as many as 11 new states and leaves legal uncertainty elsewhere.
The denial today of seven pending appeals defied predictions. Advocates on both sides had urged the justices to resolve the issue following a wave of lower court rulings that the Constitution guarantees same-sex marriage rights.
The rejection lets three federal appeals decisions take effect, legalizing same-sex marriage in Utah, Oklahoma, Virginia, Wisconsin and Indiana. Six other states — Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas, West Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina — will likely follow because they fall under the jurisdiction of those appellate courts.
Those additions will bring the number of gay-marriage states to 30, plus the District of Columbia.
As I’ve said many times on this blog, when people gain the right to marry someone of the same sex, other people like me lose the right to disagree with it. And it will be all under the umbrella of discrimination.
You want a gay wedding cake? People who disagree will be forced to provide it or pay a penalty, possibly costing them their business, as we’ve already seen. And our right to disagree just withers from there.
This is nothing more than tyranny of the minority.