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FILE - In this Friday, Jan. 10, 2014, file photo, Troy Williams, a local LGBT organizer, speaks to a crowd of supporters of gay marriage as they gathered to rally and deliver more than 58,000 petition signatures in support of gay marriage to Utah Gov. Gary Herbert at the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City. In less than a month, two federal judges have struck down state bans on gay marriage for the same reason, concluding that they violate the Constitution’s promise of equal treatment under the law. Although that idea has been the heart of the gay marriage debate for years, the decisions in deeply conservative Oklahoma and Utah offer new momentum for litigants pressing the same argument in dozens of other cases across the country. (AP Photo/Steve C. Wilson, File)
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FILE - In this Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, file photo, Gay Phillips, left, her partner Sue Barton, along with Mary Bishop and her partner Sharon Baldwin, right, toast during a celebration at the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center, in Tulsa, Okla., after a federal judge struck down Oklahoma's gay marriage ban. But the judge headed off any rush to the altar by setting aside his order while state and local officials complete an appeal. In less than a month, two federal judges have struck down state bans on gay marriage for the same reason, concluding that they violate the Constitution’s promise of equal treatment under the law. Although that idea has been the heart of the gay marriage debate for years, the decisions in deeply conservative Oklahoma and Utah offer new momentum for litigants pressing the same argument in dozens of other cases across the country. (AP Photo/Tulsa World, James Gibbard, File)
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State Rep. Mark Pody of Lebanon and fellow Republican Sen. Mae Beavers, right, of Mt. Juliet hold a press conference in Nashville, Tenn., on Wednesday, Jan.15, 2014, about their bill seeking to ban state participation in the federal health care law. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig)
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Republican Sen. Mae Beavers of Mt. Juliet, left, speaks at a press conference in Nashville, Tenn., on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014, about her bill seeking to ban state participation in the federal health care law. To her right are state Republican Reps.Terri Lynn Weaver of Lancaster and Sheila Butt of Columbia. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig)
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Shawnee County, Kan., District Attorney Chad Taylor, left, confers with his office's spokesman, Lee McGowan, right, after a news conference announcing felony charges against a 17-year-old boy, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014, at the county courthouse in Topeka, Kan. The boy is accused of planning a high school shooting. (AP Photo/John Hanna)
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FILE - In this Aug. 12, 2009 file photo, President Barack Obama presents the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom to Billie Jean King, known for winning the famous "Battle of the Sexes" tennis match, and championing gender equality issues, during ceremonies at the White House in Washington. King believes standing up to discrimination is the best way to combat it. She will help lead the U.S. delegation in the opening ceremonies at the Sochi Olympics in Russia, which recently passed an anti-gay law. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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Nine year old Raelynn Holloway, hugs her mother Rhiannon Holloway, left, during a prayer vigil for the victims of the Berrendo Middle School shooting in Roswell, N.M., Tuesday Jan. 14, 2014. Officials and witnesses say a 12-year-old boy drew a shotgun from a band-instrument case and shot two classmates at his Roswell school before a teacher talked him into dropping the weapon. A boy was critically injured and a girl was in satisfactory condition following the shooting yesterday morning at Berrendo Middle School. (AP Photo/Albuquerque Journal, Pat Vasquez-Cunningham)
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Roswell residents attend a prayer vigil for the victims of the Berrendo Middle School shooting in Roswell, N.M., Tuesday Jan. 14, 2014. Officials and witnesses say a 12-year-old boy drew a shotgun from a band-instrument case and shot two classmates at his Roswell school before a teacher talked him into dropping the weapon. A boy was critically injured and a girl was in satisfactory condition following the shooting yesterday morning at Berrendo Middle School. (AP Photo/Albuquerque Journal, Pat Vasquez-Cunningham)
