Tag Archives: Utah

UTAH: Hearing On Marriage Stay May Not Come For Several Days

The Boston Globe reports: The state filed a notice of appeal late Friday and was working on a request for an emergency stay that would stop marriage licenses from being issued to same-sex couples. “It will probably take a little bit of time to get everything in place,” said Ryan Bruckman, a spokesman for the attorney general’s office. Bruckman said …

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UTAH: Salt Lake City Mayor Performs Wedding For Gay State Senator

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Updated Marriage Map

Wikipedia’s editors are already on it, even though Utah may not stay blue in the short term. 

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UTAH: Gay Couples Rush County Clerk Office To Marry Ahead Of Expected Stay

According to an unconfirmed report from the first couple to marry, those who were in line by 5PM local time will be allowed to marry today.

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Utah Gov Has The Gay Marriage Sadz

“I am very disappointed an activist federal judge is attempting to override the will of the people of Utah. I am working with my legal counsel and the acting Attorney General to determine the best course to defend traditional marriage within the borders of Utah.” – Utah Governor Gary Herbert, via press release.

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Mormon Church Reacts To Marriage Ruling

“This ruling by a district court will work its way through the judicial process. We continue to believe that voters in Utah did the right thing by providing clear direction in the state Constitution that marriage should be between a man and a woman and we are hopeful that this view will be validated by a higher court.” – Eric …

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Utah AG To Seek Stay, Will Appeal

This was expected. The above tweet is from a Salt Lake Tribune reporter.

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Utah’s First Gay Marriage Has Happened!

There is no waiting period in Utah. Couples that wish to marry there might want to do so immediately, as many expect the state to rush an appeal for a stay to the Tenth Circuit Court. Via the Q Salt Lake: Michael Adam Ferguson and J. Seth Anderson may well be Utah’s first gay couple to legally marry in the …

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BREAKING: Federal District Judge Strikes Down Utah’s Ban On Same-Sex Marriage

From the Salt Lake City Tribune: A federal judge in Utah Friday struck down the state’s ban on same-sex marriage, saying the law violates the U.S. Constitution’s guarantees of equal protection and due process. “The state’s current laws deny its gay and lesbian citizens their fundamental right to marry and, in so doing, demean the dignity of these same-sex couples …

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Freep This Utah Poll

Utah will consider a statewide LGBT anti-discrimination ordinance next month and a Salt Lake City television station is polling its viewers.  (Tipped by JMG reader Eric)

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Brian Brown Has The Polygamy Sadz

“There’s no doubt that the arguments for same-sex marriage were a template for this case. Once marriage is determined to be primarily about providing government recognition and benefits for loving, committed relationships, there is simply no principled way not to extend ‘marriage’ to everyone, no matter the nature of their relationship. People in polygamist, plural marriages are just a short …

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CNN Hosts Hate Group Leader Tony Perkins For Polygamy Discussion

Carlos Maza writes for Equality Matters: CNN allowed hate group leader Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council (FRC), to baselessly accuse marriage equality of creating a slippery slope to polygamy after asking him whether the growing acceptance of homosexuality was to blame for the decriminalization of polygamous relationships in Utah. Once again, Perkins took CNN’s bait, reveling in …

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Tony Perkins: Legalizing Homosexuality Has Led To Legalizing Polygamy

“Recognizing that their destinies are very much intertwined, polygamists are using the same playbook as their same-sex ‘marriage’ counterparts: Step one: overturn the law. Step two: demand recognition. Step three: force acceptance. Ten years ago, Justice Antonin Scalia predicted exactly that in Lawrence v. Texas, the Supreme Court decision rolling back sodomy statutes. With prophetic insight, he pointed to the …

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Today’s Lie From Breitbart

In fact, nowhere in the judge’s 91-page ruling do the words “same-sex marriage” appear.  What the judge DID cite is Lawrence V Texas, which overturned statewide bans on sodomy by declaring that all consenting adult Americans have a right to sexual privacy in their own homes. But the pesky truth is unimportant over at Breitbart, not even to “senior legal …

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Tony Perkins On Utah’s Polygamy Ruling

“This decision is a real war on women and children as polygamy is a practice that has historically devalued the role of women and undermined the equality of a husband and wife that has become the standard in Western Civilization. The increasing awareness of the collateral cultural and religious carnage that accompanies the redefinition of natural marriage will cause the …

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Tweet Of The Day – Frothy Mix

Frothy totally predicted that gay marriage would lead to Utah becoming the 50th state to legalize unmarried cohabitation.

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As Predicted

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Quote Of The Day – Alan Osmond

“We regulate the institution of marriage based on gender complementarity. When marriage fails, our state law works to protect the child’s relationship with both the mother and the father, not based on what the parents want, but based on the child’s right to have both genders modeled in his life. Owning children irrelevant to their own emotional or biological needs …

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UTAH: Federal Judge Strikes Down Portions Of State’s Ban On Polygamy

In a move that will cause much told-you-so-ing from the anti-gay slippery slopers, today a federal judge struck down portions of Utah’s ban on polygamy. The case was brought by the Brown family of TLC’s Sister Wives reality show fame. In a 90-page opinion, United States District Court Judge Clark Waddups found key parts of the law to be unconstitutional, …

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Matt Baume: Marriage News Watch

Clip recap: “As of this weekend, marriage equality has suddenly come to Australia — but there’s a catch. In fact, there are a lot of catches. Courts in Hawaii, Pennsylvania, and Utah could all be the first to rule on marriage in a post-DOMA world. And an equality lawsuit in Louisiana got knocked down, but not out.”

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