Utah Gay Marriage Ban Struck Down As Unconstitutional

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/20/utah-gay-marriage-ban_n_4482222.html

The article basically just discusses the reasons that not legalizing gay marraige in Utah is unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Robert J. Shelby issued a ruling saying Utah's law passed by voters in 2004 violates gay and lesbian couples' rights to due process and equal protection under the 14th Amendment. This caused an almost ripple effect and in the days that followed gay marraige was legalized in New Mexico and Hawaii. People were shocked and surprised that the highly conservative Utah would be among one of the earlier states to have this kind of action passed. Immediately after the ruling lot of gay and lesbian doubted how long it would last say that it was "too good to be true."

I have mixed feelings about this issue. Initially I think how in the world can you justify not legalizing gay marraige? It's in direct violation to the rights of those citizens and to the Constitution to do that, as stated in the article. 
There's a lot of people, however, that argue about how it's a matter of seperation of church and state, that people who do not support the legalization of gay marraige are ignorant because they are trying to mix religion and secular matters. That I disagree with because gay marriage, while your ideas of it may be guided by your religious veiws, is not a religious issue. It's a moral issue. So I think it would be much better classified as such. But I think where the big problem comes in between the two point of views is that in more recent years it's not being discussed as a moral issure anymore (at least for some) but now it's a civil rights issue. And in terms of civil rights, I feel that it only makes sense, legally/constitutionally, to have gay marriage leglaized. Even in terms of morality, though, the government doesn't traditionally rule on moral issues, nor do I think that it's their place (there are things such as murder that obvioulsy are a danger to society and that is why the government does rule on such things). For example, some may think that drinking is immoral, or that cheating on your spouse is immoral, but it's not the governements place to say that those things are illegal because they do not reach some moral standard. So, some may think that gay marraige is immoral, but I don't think that it's the governments place to say that it's illegal because of that. Therefore, I would come to the same conclusion, that it should be legal.