Things are moving so rapidly on the marriage front that it's hard to keep up.
Three more states are now official: West Virginia, Idaho and North Carolina.
Idaho is probably the most significant, as the Supreme Court itself dropped the state's stay on marriages.
West Virginia didn't put up a fight, and started issuing licenses on its own Friday.
Later Friday, a federal judge ruled against North Carolina's last-ditch bid and ordered marriages to begin. Some couples were already marrying Friday night.
If you're counting ... that brings to 29 the number of states that are now offering same-sex marriages or are definite to do so.
That's an additional 10 states just in the past week, since the Supremes' non-decision on Monday.
There are also six more states that appear to be out of options and are expected to soon be joining the marriage list: South Carolina, Wyoming, Kansas, Alaska, Arizona and Montana. That would bring the total to 35!!!
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/10/10/suprem … latestnews
As for the final 15 states, they're in four circuits where the circuit courts have yet to rule:
5th Circuit: Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi
6th Circuit: Kentucky, Tennessee, Michigan, Ohio
8th Circuit: North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Missouri, Arkansas
11th Circuit: Alabama, Florida, Georgia
http://www.uscourts.gov/court_locator.aspx
Wisconsin now allows same-sex marriage. It was one of the five states that the Supreme Court declined to accept last Monday that set off the current explosion of states permitting it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/16/opinion/somethi … pe=article