Gay marriage in limbo in Wyo.

[brooklynite]

Source: Wyoming News

CHEYENNE - Same-sex couples in Wyoming are being forced to wait to learn if and when they legally can get married.

Gov. Matt Mead instructed the state's attorney general on Monday to continue defending Wyoming's ban on gay marriage.

This order came despite a historic U.S. Supreme Court ruling earlier in the day that seemingly opens the path to legalizing same-sex marriage in Wyoming and several other states.

The nation's high court surprised many legal watchers Monday by refusing to hear appeals from five states - Indiana, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin - that were fighting to continue their same-sex marriage bans.

Read more: http://www.wyomingnews.com/articles/2014/10/07/news/01top_10-07-14.txt#.VDQJ8vldXng

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Here's betting he'll spend every last penny he can, knowing it's hopeless. Can you say "fiscal conservative"?

[Botany]

1. Good luck w/this action Gov.

Utah and Oklahoma now have gay marriage as the law of the land and it
will that way in Wyoming very soon too.

I wonder how much this will cost the state of Wyoming?

[Mike Nelson]

2. Shouldn't Gov. Mead know and follow the law?

...or be escorted out of office.

[SoapBox]

3. Asshole.

I think that says it.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. From that article:

{Updated} Mead says Supreme Court move has no impact on Wyoming's gay marriage case

Jason Marsden, executive director of the Matthew Shepard Foundation, sent a statement on the 16th anniversary of Shepard's abduction and fatal attack.

"The Supreme Court’s decision shows the progress we have made since Matt was attacked, a tragedy that drastically changed the way our country discussed issues of anti-LGBT hate," he said. "That conversation is ongoing, and the Matthew Shepard Foundation continues to be at the forefront of ending anti-LGBT hate."

Matthew Shepard

Matthew Wayne "Matt" Shepard (December 1, 1976 – October 12, 1998) was an American student at the University of Wyoming who was beaten, tortured and left to die near Laramie, Wyoming on the night of October 6, 1998, and died six days later at Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado, on October 12, from severe head injuries.

[LonePirate]

5. This is just the latest example of Republican hypocrisy regarding the Constitution

Despite their professed love of the law of the land, they only respect the Second Amendment and no other parts of the Constitution.

[Botany]

6. yup! .... the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment is pretty clear

The Equal Protection Clause of the 14th amendment of the U.S. Constitution prohibits states from denying any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. See U.S. Const. amend. XIV. In other words, the laws of a state must treat an individual in the same manner as others in similar conditions and circumstances. A violation would occur, for example, if a state prohibited an individual from entering into an employment contract because he or she was a member of a particular race. The equal protection clause is not intended to provide "equality" among individuals or classes but only "equal application" of the laws. The result, therefore, of a law is not relevant so long as there is no discrimination in its application. By denying states the ability to discriminate, the equal protection clause of the Constitution is crucial to the protection of civil rights.

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The court's action of not hearing the case all but makes gay marraige the law off the land in 30 states
and makes it a done deal that the it will be that way in the other 20 very soon.

[riversedge]

7. and Wym has an openly gay member in the Leg.........

Rep. Cathy Connolly, D-Laramie, the only openly gay member of Legislature, also expressed her frustration with Mead.

She said he is just stalling the inevitable, and she predicted any federal judge now would rule that same-sex couples can get married in the state.

"I'm really disappointed in the governor for his failure to recognize and publicly stand up and say it's time to move on because our gay and lesbian citizens are equal to their heterosexual counterparts," she said.

"Stand up, be a man and say it honestly."..........