And then there were three ....

This is a huge week for LGBT America, maybe the biggest ever.

Either this Thursday, Friday or the coming Monday the Supreme Court will rule on Obergefell v Hodges. The case that will or will not mark gay and lesbian Americans as full or second class citizens.

Our old pal the Same Sex Marriage in the USA map that we were glued to over the last couple of years, watching state after state turn color as more and more corts or state legislatures made marriage equality law - till BOOM! Two out of three judges in the US 6th court of appeals  ( Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee ) said " we think that the gay is icky , so not just the back of the bus, but kicked off all together ". Teeing up the Supremes to take the case - which is not something they really seemed to want to do in a post WINDSOR world. The 6th is the only district in the county that has found banning same sex couples from marriage constitutional - if the case had gone the other way, the  big guys would have just let the lessers handle things - and the whole map would be blue already.

There are three GIANT cases yet to come out of this term. OBAMACARE, VOTING RIGHTS and THE GAY MARRIAGE .The court just added the Friday release date last week, and before that common wisdom was that Obama care would have been yesterday and SSM on Thursday for marriage equality JUST in time for the NYC and SF PRIDE parades , but with the addition of the Friday and now the Monday, folks seem to think it will be health care this week and US on Monday. But no one really knows - and the court can do what ever it wants for as long as it wants, there is no law they have to be done by July.

Now, nothing at all will change for Neil and I , New York passed our marriage equality in the house and senate , so we will still be fully married, with full federal rights and benefits. As will most all couples in commonly blue America, but if states are given the right to ban same sex marriage  - then all those western and southern states will certainly go right back to their bans. No one knows what will happen to the full faith and credit part of the Constitution - if a NY married couple moves to Idaho -  are they unmarried ?

EVERYONE EVERYWHERE is saying this is a fait accompli - with what local Atlanta paper going as far as to print spots in Greater Atlanta where same sex couples could get married asap. All of the right wing GOP Presidential clown car has reved up the anti gay rhetoric . The usual characters of wing nuts growling and ripping their clothes asunder when nothing has been said yet.

I can not see how on earth Justice Kennedy at this point, after everything he has written in the past could chuck us all under the bus as this late date, but YOU NEVER KNOW. ( I also thing Roberts may come down on the right side of history ) 

But either way, with all three of these cases we will be in an entirely different country one week from your day.