Same-Sex Marriage Update

[MsTinkerbelly]

On wednesday 8/6, there will be 4 states going to the same Federal Appeals court back to back.

Same-sex proponents and lawyers from Ohio, michigan, tennessee and kentucky will appear before the Federal appeals court in an effort to defend the decisions already made to declare their bans unconstitutional.

Some concern with this court, is that the three panel court has 2 conservatives and one liberal judge. Judge Sutten (appointed by george w) is very conservative, although he did vote in favor of upholding the affordable care act. Also encouraging is the recent string of Judges (liberal and conservative alike) who have ruled in favor of marriage equality.

In any case, win or lose the cases will probably proceed to the US Supreme Court to be determined for the entire country sometime in 2015/2016. In an interview with Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg (from LGBTQ Nation), she stated that the court would take up the issue for a final say so no later than June 2016, possibly sooner.