The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to take same-sex marriage cases from Michigan and three other states. The high court will decide this term whether the states' bans are constitutional.
All four same-sex marriage petitions from Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee and Kentucky.
The Justices decided they would take up the issue at a closed-door conference Friday.
Today's decision comes just months after the justices said they won't hear any appeals on same-sex marriage. Although the move did not establish a constitutional right for gay couples to marry, the consequences were effectively the same. More than half the states now allow gay couples to wed.