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Wow, cannot believe it happened here before Oregon. And Utah, one of if not the most Republican state(s)..just wow. Like an arrow straight into the Heart of Darkness. Good to see, and I know of at least two couples who will likely take advantage of this very soon.
Nonsense. You don't give up on a just fight so easily. This isn't a movement of popular will but one crafted by savvy elites beholdened to no one. This ruling will be swept aside.
Unlike CA, Utah will appeal. States have every right to establish marriage laws they deem fit as sovereign entities. This will end up before SCOTUS once again.
I used to think that people disagreed and that they would come to agreement over time. Not so. Its win or lose….and the people on the side of prohibiting equal rights fall below the horizon.
I wonder what happens to them as change and time move forward.
Please let's not equate someone from Utah with being Mormon, nor someone who is Mormon as being anti-gay marriage. Many Mormons feel legal gay marriage is fine though they may disapprove of religious gay marriage; some even have no problem with the latter.
Thank you for making that clear. I am a practicing Mormon who has no problem with legalizing gay marriage. I've even marched in Utah's Gay Pride Parade with a group called "Mormons Building Bridges."
Because same-sex
marriage has only recently been allowed by a number of states, the State argues that an
individual’s right to marry someone of the same sex cannot be a fundamental right. But the
Supreme Court did not adopt this line of reasoning in the analogous case of Loving v. Virginia,
388 U.S. 1 (1967). Instead of declaring a new right to interracial marriage, the Court held that
individuals could not be restricted from exercising their existing right to marry on account of the
race of their chosen partner. Id. at 12. Similarly, the Plaintiffs here do not seek a new right to
same-sex marriage, but instead ask the court to hold that the State cannot prohibit them from
exercising their existing right to marry on account of the sex of their chosen partner.
So the judge refused to stay his decision pending appeal, and the Salt Lake County Clerk immediately began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Gay couples are getting married in Utah as we speak.
Did you read the courts decision? The man was thorough. He covered every possible angle.
And he cites Scalia's dissenting argument that the overturning of the federal DOMA would lead to the overturning of similar state laws. It was "Yep, and I'm doing it!"
Did you read the courts decision? The man was thorough. He covered every possible angle.
Thanks for the link to the decision.
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