Same Sex Marriage Ruling Echoes as West Virginia Relents and South Carolina Persists
Channel: Yanu ari
Date: 10/10/2014

A Supreme Court order legalizing same-sex marriage in five states reverberated further on Thursday, with the attorney general of West Virginia conceding that its ban on same-sex marriage was no longer defensible but South Carolina officials vowing to keep fighting to restrict marriage to a man and a woman.

Since the Supreme Court decision on Monday and a ruling from a federal circuit court on Tuesday, new developments have appeared almost hourly as gay-rights advocates press for action in nine other states: Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Montana, North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia and Wyoming.

These states are bound by law to accept the rulings of their federal circuit courts once the Supreme Court has allowed them to stand. But as the contrasting responses by West Virginia and South Carolina show, their paths to same-sex marriage can vary markedly.

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