After a watchful eye from the GLBT community, the Wisconsin Supreme Court has upheld the state’s constitutional ban on gay marriage and civil unions. It is disappointing but no surprise.

The ruling was 7-0 from the judges. Wednesday, they ruled that the 2006 constitutional amendment was properly put to voters in a statewide referendum.
The suit was filed that the 2006 amendment violated a rule that limits referendum questions to a single subject to be voted on. The lawsuit, filed by a voter opposed to the amendment, argued that gay marriage and civil unions were two different subjects and not a constituting as a single subject.

Justice Gableman says both subjects “carry out the same general purpose of preserving the legal status of marriage in Wisconsin as between only one man and one woman.”