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CHEYENNE — A state judge declined Tuesday to suspend a lawsuit contesting a Wyoming law that specifies marriage is limited to one man and one woman.

Instead, Laramie County District Court Judge Thomas Campbell said at a hearing he will consider any additional facts in the case and in November will either rule on the law on the spot or allow the case to go ahead.

"I think you all assume too much," Campbell said after both sides argued that federal lawsuits elsewhere either have resolved the question of gay marriage in Wyoming or soon will.

Attorneys for Wyoming had argued that suspending the case would save time and effort while those cases move ahead. The plaintiffs in the case argued along similar lines that Campbell should simply rule in their favor.

But Campbell said it's not known whether the U.S. Supreme Court will consider gay marriage, such as by examining a case out of Utah in which a federal appeals court in Denver ruled June 25 in favor of allowing gay marriage.