This stopped me cold:
So of course this all happened while I was out running errands.
The state will undoubtedly appeal. It's going to be interesting to see how this one plays out. This could be the one that goes to SCOTUS.
Here's the decision. It's solid, and blows all the standard anti-marriage arguments completely apart. I strongly recommend you read it.
Update:
And one couple has already gotten married:
Update II:
So of course there's a line:
A federal judge struck down Utah's same-sex marriage ban Friday in a decision that brings a nationwide shift toward allowing gay marriage to a conservative state where the Mormon church has long been against it.
U.S. District Judge Robert J. Shelby issued a 53-page ruling Friday saying Utah's law passed by voters in 2004 violates gay and lesbian couples' rights to due process and equal protection under the 14th Amendment.
Shelby said the state failed to show that allowing same-sex marriages would affect opposite-sex marriages in any way.
"In the absence of such evidence, the State's unsupported fears and speculations are insufficient to justify the State's refusal to dignify the family relationships of its gay and lesbian citizens," Shelby wrote.
So of course this all happened while I was out running errands.
The state will undoubtedly appeal. It's going to be interesting to see how this one plays out. This could be the one that goes to SCOTUS.
Here's the decision. It's solid, and blows all the standard anti-marriage arguments completely apart. I strongly recommend you read it.
Update:
And one couple has already gotten married:
Michael Adam Ferguson and J. Seth Anderson may well be Utah’s first gay couple to legally marry in the state of Utah. The couple, hearing that U.S. District Judge Robert J. Shelby has declared Utah’s Amendment 3 as unconstitutional, went to Salt Lake County Clerk Sherrie Swensen’s office asking for a marriage license.
“Our application for a marriage license was just accepted by the state of Utah,” Ferguson wrote on his Facebook wall.
Deputy Salt Lake County Clerk Wany Morrison was in tears as she handed the couple their license to marry. As the couple was awaiting an officiant, Morrison told the couple she would marry them, but was pulled out of the ceremony by Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill, who said he wanted to wait on official notice from the state.
QSaltLake reporter Bob Henline, who is also an official marriage officiant, married the couple on the spot.
Update II:
So of course there's a line:
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