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Will Nevada become the 18th state to legalize same-sex marriage? Democratic State Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto said yesterday that Nevada won’t defend the state’s gay marriage ban when it goes to a federal appeals court. With the support of Republican governor, Brian Sandoval, she says the state’s arguments supporting it’s constitutional amendment are “no longer defensible.”

A group of eight same-sex couples sued to challenge the ban as unconstitutional, saying the state’s domestic-partnership statute relegates them to second-class status. A federal judge in Reno upheld the law in 2012, sending it to the 9th Circuit appeals court in San Francisco. The case Masto says the state won’t defend.

Nevada’s move comes as courts around the country and the federal government are slowly chipping away at the laws that ban  same-sex marriage and benefits. In just the one-month span from December to January alone, two federal judges struck down state bans on gay marriage for the same reason Nevada dropped it case, agreeing that they violate the Constitution’s promise of equal protection under the law.”

In the state made famous for drive-through weddings, will gays also be lining up for quickie divorces?

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Carrie Stone