Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg -- comments about how Supreme Court will face "Same Sex Marriage" issue in September-October

From SCOTUS blog dot-com -- Lyle Denniston article on "Mixed Signals. . ." --
If Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was speaking for the Supreme Court on Tuesday night (September 16, 2014) in Minnesota about how the Justices will deal with the same-sex marriage issue this Term, the question just may go untouched for a time.  She seemed to be saying that, until there is a fresh split among federal appeals courts on the issue, there would be no need for the Court to move with dispatch to confront the constitutional controversy.
Those comments appeared to run directly counter to the impression the Court gave only a week earlier, when it rushed its planning to take up the question at its first Conference of the Term on September 29, 2014.  Without waiting for all of the filings to come in on cases from five states, the Court staff — probably not acting independently — referred all seven pending petitions for that early review.  That is almost unprecedented, under the Court’s rules and normal procedures.