Nevada ends fight to ban gay marriage
By Jonathan Kami, Reuters
Nevada dropped its defense of a state ban on gay marriage on Monday, saying the U.S. legal landscape had changed and its arguments in support of a voter-approved ban on same-sex nuptials were no longer sustainable.
The move, made by the state’s Democratic attorney general with the support of its Republican governor, does not legalize gay marriage in Nevada but removes the state as an opponent of those fighting to overturn the ban in federal court.
State Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto said that after careful review, the state had filed a motion to withdraw a brief it filed last month in support of the ban in a case pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.
Welcome to the twentieth century Nevada!
Now feel free to open your mind a little more by legalizing same sex marriage and join us in the twenty-first century.
Seriously. Think of the revenues from all those marriage licenses … not to mention divorces!
Then, of course, there’s doing the right thing. Love is love.