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The Supreme Court is trying to pass off the big job of issuing a major national ruling on whether gays have a right to marry, instead, suggesting that they could find a way out of the case of California’s ban on same-sex marriage.

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On Tuesday, after hearing arguments about Proposition 8, the court made no rule on the ban after Justice Kennedy said it was too soon to decide on the ruling.

Several justices, including some liberals who seem open to gay marriage, raised doubts Tuesday that the case is properly before them. Kennedy, the potentially decisive vote on a closely divided court, suggested that the court could dismiss the case with no ruling at all.

Such an outcome would almost certainly allow gay marriages to resume in California but would have no impact elsewhere.

Kennedy said he feared the court would go into “uncharted waters” if it embraced arguments advanced by gay marriage supporters. But lawyer Theodore Olson, representing two same-sex couples, said that the court similarly ventured into the unknown in 1967 when it struck down bans on interracial marriage in 16 states.

Kennedy challenged the accuracy of that comment by noting that other countries had had interracial marriages for hundreds of years.

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Kennedy’s apprehension of striking down Prop 8 in its entirety indicates that the court may dismiss the case entirely, leaving in place the lower district court ruling that overturned Proposition 8 in a potential June ruling.

This story is developing.

SOURCE: AP