Residents across Westchester and the Hudson Valley are responding to the U.S. Supreme Court's plans to consider whether same-sex marriage should be legalized throughout the country.

Currently 36 states allow same-sex marriage, but it could be all 50 states by the end of June.

Yonkers City Councilman Michael Sabatino says the move is exciting. "It's confirming that we were on the right track of what we were advocating for," he says. The openly gay councilman and his partner Robert Voorheis married over 10 years ago in Canada.

The justices agreed Friday to take up cases from Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee, asking the court to overturn bans on same-sex marriage in their states and across the U.S.

Some residents say they don't believe that same-sex marriage should be legalized across the country. Others say that same-sex marriages deserve to be treated equally.

The Supreme Court justices are scheduled to begin hearing the marriage equality cases from those four states beginning in April.