When I talked with everyone from business owners to average joes in downtown Phoenix and pastors
across the valley, I found people who were for it very opposed and a lot of people who are also
just indifferent to this ruling. Take a listen. If someone wants to get married, get married. It
doesn't matter who it is. We recognize marriages for all kinds of people and there's no reason to
single out gay. I'm totally against it. I think that homosexuality is disgusting. And that was
Pastor Steven Anderson. He runs Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe. He was very upset and
mad about today's ruling. He says it's not just about his religion, but it's also about his right
as an American citizen who already voted against a gay marriage. I don't even think that this is
what the people of Arizona want. You know, forget me as a pastor, as a bible-believing Christian.
If you took a poll of Arizona, I guarantee you that probably more than half of the people are
not okay with this, but it's just the federal government cramming it down our throat.
And we reached out to numerous pastors across the valley. They did not want to go on camera,
but said that if a gay couple came to them and asked them to marry them, that most of them not
talked with says they wouldn't marry them, that they would explain why, but they didn't want to
do an interview because they want to focus on loving people in the community, not just about
condemning what they're doing. So Stephanie, it's going to be very, very interesting to see how all
this plays out in the next couple months. Sure. Well, Katie, thank you. In addition to Arizona
today, the federal government is also recognizing same-sex marriages in Indiana, Oklahoma, Utah,
Virginia, Wisconsin, Nevada, and Colorado.