Three weeks after U.S. District Judge Robert Shelby struck down Utah's ban on gay marriage, the Supreme Court has temporarily reinstated the law. The Tenth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will now review Shelby's decision and issue a ruling by February 25.

The Utah attorney general is requesting an emergency stay to block same-sex marriages in the state pending an appeal of a ruling that Utah's gay-marriage ban is unconstitutional. "I am very disappointed an activist federal judge is attempting to override the will of the people of Utah," said Governor Gary Herbert.

A federal judge just struck down Utah's ban on same-sex marriage. "The state's current laws deny its gay and lesbian citizens their fundamental right to marry and, in so doing, demean the dignity of these same-sex couples for no rational reason," U.S. District Court Judge Robert J. Shelby wrote.

Liz Cheney stopped by Fox News today to talk about her opposition to gay marriage, an appearance that drew the ire of her gay, married younger sister Mary and her wife Heather Poe, who denounced Liz as "wrong — and on the wrong side of history."

The Hawaii State Senate passed a bill on Tuesday legalizing same-sex marriage and The Associated Press was quick to highlight the vote's cultural significance: "Hawaii Senate passes gay marriage, clearing islands to become a same-sex wedding destination."

The Illinois House just passed a bill legalizing same-sex marriage. The bill now heads to the Senate, which already passed the measure, for a technical change to its effective date. Governor Pat Quinn has pledged to sign the bill into law, thus making Illinois the 15th state (including D.C.) to recognize gay marriage.

Utah has a perfectly good explanation for why it won't allow same-sex marriage: Gay couples can't make babies.

When Tom Corbett, the Republican Governor of Pennsylvania, appeared on Harrisburg's WHP-TV yesterday, he said his lawyer's comparison of gay marriage to “a union between 12-year-olds” was “inappropriate.” Good for him, right? Well, no, because then Corbett kept talking.

Citing the Supreme Court's United States vs. Windsor decision and state equal rights laws, a New Jersey judge has ruled that the state must allow gay marriage. Superior Court Judge Mary Jacobson ordered state officials to start officiating same-sex marriages on October 21.

Former President George H.W. Bush served as an official witness at a same-sex wedding in Kennebunkport, Maine this weekend. The former president’s spokesman, Jim McGrath, confirmed Bush and his wife Barbara attended the nuptials of Bonnie Clement and Helen Thorgalsen: “They were private citizens attending a private ceremony for two friends.”

Supreme Court Justice and all-around dope person Ruth Bader Ginsburg will become the first SCOTUS justice to officiate a same-sex wedding tonight when she marries Kennedy Center President Michael M. Kaiser and economist John Roberts (not Ginsburg's colleague).

Liz Cheney doesn't think her sister should have been permitted to get married.

Gay married couples are ineligible to receive the same federal veterans benefits afforded to straight couples, according to a letter from the Department of Veterans Affairs. The letter, obtained by the Washington Blade on Tuesday, cites Title 38 of the U.S. Code, which “define[s] 'spouse' and surviving spouse' to refer only to a person of the opposite sex."

Gay MSNBC host Thomas Roberts revealed today that a pair of powerful GOP leaders just swooned over his engagement and marriage to Patrick Abner. Reince Priebus and Sean Spicer, the chairman and chief spokesman of the Republican National Committee, cheerfully congratulated Roberts in 2011 and 2012, just as the GOP cheerfully touted its aversion to gay people.

On Monday, Costa Rican lawmakers passed a bill that concerned various social services for young people. On Tuesday, they woke up to the realization that they had pretty much legalized gay marriage.

A Bulgarian grad student and his American husband have become the first gay couple granted immigration benefits after the Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act last week. Unfortunately, Traian Popov and Julian Marsh live in Florida, which continues to not recognize their union.

Let the nuptials commence: The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals just formally lifted its stay on gay marriage, opening the door for thousands of same-sex couples in California to get hitched.

Everyone knows that Bert and Ernie are gay (not everyone knows that Bert is Dominican and Ernie is Puerto Rican), so of course they were excited that for the Supreme Court's two gay-marriage rulings this week—as Jack Hunter lovingly illustrates on this week's New Yorker cover.

Now that the Supreme Court has struck down the federal Defense of Marriage Act, and punted on Proposition 8, allowing California to continue licensing gay marriages, the two largest legal battles for gay-rights advocates have essentially ended. So what comes next?