It is going to be very hard for any judge not to strike down these laws with the precedents the Supreme Court established in June. It was only by the thinnest pretense that those decisions didn’t nationalize gay marriage, and they left lower court judges few options — which we saw in New Jersey and now in Utah. My guess is the Supremes wanted to give a few more liberal states the chance to adopt gay marriage by legislative action or ballot question so as to make the judicial effort appear less of a revolution and more of a suppression of some holdouts.
The people need to take these decisions out of the hands of imperial courts