SCOTUS Doesn't Want To Ask, Won't Tell Gays They Can't Get Married

Gay wedding season will be in full force.

There was a time in ‘Murica when surrounding yourself with gay and lesbian friends was the only way to avoid the endless navel-gazing of wedding season. Don’t want to know who is registered where? Can’t force a smile through one more “best man” speech that devolves into “there are so many great things I could say about this guy if his woman… err, wife, weren’t here.” Having gay friends was the way to avoid all that. Sometimes a man just wants to sit down and watch the Tony Awards in peace, without having to look at another man’s wedding album.

Well, those days are done. The Supreme Court today didn’t grant cert to review bans on gay marriage in five states….

Today brings good Supreme Court news to gay people in red or purple states. From the Atlantic:

On the first day of its fall term, the court announced it was rejecting appeals of lower-court rulings that had struck down same-sex-marriage bans in Indiana, Utah, Oklahoma, Virginia, and Wisconsin.

The move allows those decisions to stand even as the justices punted, for the moment, on considering the broader question of whether to recognize gay marriage as a constitutional right.

That’s not the most surprising thing in the world. There was no circuit split in those five appeals. The Court just made a gay marriage-ish ruling last year. The gay marriage horse is out of the barn and… it turns out that people are not divorcing their wives to marry their drinking buddies. I think we’re done here.

People crying into chicken sandwiches and waffle fries this morning still have hope. There are other cases pending, and eventually one just assumes there will be a lower-court split on whether or not states can ban gay marriage. At some point, one expects the Supreme Court will have to take on this issue.

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But not this term. Time to stock up on dining sets and kitchen appliances. More wedding invitations are coming your way. Let’s all practice our gay hymns.

Supreme Court Quietly Allows Same-Sex Marriage in 5 States [The Atlantic]
High court denies gay marriage appeals [AP]

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