Earlier this week Michigan’s GOP Governor Rick Snyder says the state won’t recognize any gay marriages performed before an appeals court put an earlier ruling allowing them on hold.

DETROIT (AP) — Michigan state agencies won’t immediately recognize hundreds of same-sex marriages that were performed in the hours before an appeals court put on hold a judge’s ruling that tossed out a state ban on gay marriage, the governor’s office said Sunday.

About 300 couples wed Saturday in four Michigan counties before a federal appeals court placed a stay on a Detroit federal judge’s decision overturning the state’s 2004 constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.

The decision blocks the state’s county clerks from issuing new same-sex marriage licenses until the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decides whether to extend the stay. That’s expected no sooner than Wednesday.

Until then, state agencies face the challenge of whether to recognize same-sex marriages performed Saturday.

“The governor and administration are not weighing in on these issues at this point,” Snyder spokeswoman Sarah Wurfel told The Associated Press in an email Sunday afternoon.

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This is the mess that is created when people bow to big govt' i.e.; letting the govt' control a religious ceremony.

So basically Democrats have determined that only they can pick and choose which laws to obey, the peasants and Republicans have to obey at all times; the states may not legislate their own laws, unless of course the Democrats approve of those laws; if the Dems don't approve a state's legislation, then those laws can be ignored and only federal laws need apply; except when Republicans are in charge; if Dems are in charge then federal laws only trump all other laws; unless of course they don't like their own laws they themselves wrote if those laws fail to work as planned.

We really do live in a banana republic.