Stupid and contradictory arguments

The stay of same-sex marriages in Utah is before Justice Sonia Sotomayor of the Supreme Court. Both sides have submitted their arguments.

Commenters make a couple interesting points:

The state says their reason that a stay is necessary because same-sex couples would suffer "dignitary and financial losses from the invalidation of their marriages" if the 10th Circuit or Supremes should rule against us. But, the commenter says, the state can't say being stripped of one's marital status causes huge harm while at the same time asking the 10th Circuit and the Supremes to do exactly that to those already married.

Another commenter says the "dignitary and financial loss" is a stupid argument for the state because it is their refusal to permit same-sex marriage that causes dignitary and financial loss.