The Sixth Circuit is expected to rule on its case shortly. Oral arguments have yet to occur in the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits. The Eighth Circuit doesn’t even have a District Court decision to rule on. The question is whether any two conservative judges on those panels want to be the ones to force the Supreme Court to nationalize gay marriage. Even a strong social conservative might hesitate — in part because the Circuit decisions are so disparate in their reasoning that there really is no clear rule of law that can be extracted from them to compel even more departure from traditional social mores, but a Supreme Court decision coraling them will produce such a rule.
If one of these circuits does not rule contra, gay marriage will become the law of the land anyway. The gay-rights mafia is bringing cases in all 50 states at this point.
It’s sickening to me how it is becoming law not by legislative action on part of the states, but by judicial fiat instead. Striking down state Constitutional amendments duly enacted by the people of these states is maddening.