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alp227

(32,025 posts) Fri Dec 27, 2013, 12:53 AM Dec 2013

Utah holdouts now issuing gay marriage licenses

Source: AP

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The last of the Utah counties that were holding out on issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples reversed course Thursday and decided to hand out licenses to all eligible applicants.

Officials for the four holdouts — Box Elder, Utah, Piute and San Juan counties — told The Associated Press they made the decision to offer licenses to same-sex couples.

County clerks say they had little choice after an appeals court Tuesday declined to intervene and halt gay marriage. U.S. District Judge Robert Shelby ruled last week that Utah's ban on gay marriage was unconstitutional, sending gay couples rushing to clerk offices for licenses.

The state plans to take its fight against gay marriage to the U.S. Supreme Court as early as Friday while it prepares an appeal of Shelby's ruling to the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, said Ryan Bruckman, a spokesman for the Utah attorney general's office.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/holdouts-utah-now-letting-gay-couples-wed

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Utah holdouts now issuing gay marriage licenses (Original Post) alp227 Dec 2013 OP

they do realize that if it goes that high and the SCOTUS finds it unconstitutional weissmam Dec 2013 #1

Karma Mr.Bill Dec 2013 #2

Oh ya! SoapBox Dec 2013 #3

It's all going to come crashing down. longship Dec 2013 #4

Appeal to the SCOTUS is very bad news, IMO. must be some language in the Utah merrily Dec 2013 #5

weissmam

(905 posts)

1. they do realize that if it goes that high and the SCOTUS finds it unconstitutional

Reply to alp227 (Original post)

Fri Dec 27, 2013, 12:57 AM

Dec 2013

that the UT LDS (LOL) would bring SSM in one fell swoop-pretty funny

Mr.Bill

(24,292 posts)

2. Karma

Reply to weissmam (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 27, 2013, 01:21 AM

Dec 2013

for their Proposition 8 shenanigans in California. The Mormons, that is.

SoapBox

(18,791 posts)

3. Oh ya!

Reply to Mr.Bill (Reply #2)

Fri Dec 27, 2013, 02:14 AM

Dec 2013

longship

(40,416 posts)

4. It's all going to come crashing down.

Reply to alp227 (Original post)

Fri Dec 27, 2013, 02:59 AM

Dec 2013

All the anti-gay marriage laws, I mean. SCOTUS cannot ignore this any longer, or issue any fuzzy opinions like on DOMA. There's no way they let these laws stand, including the state constitutional amendments, like here in Michigan.

They are going to have to strike them all down. They no longer have any other rational choice.

merrily

(45,251 posts)

5. Appeal to the SCOTUS is very bad news, IMO. must be some language in the Utah

Reply to alp227 (Original post)

Fri Dec 27, 2013, 08:05 AM

Dec 2013

constitution that the Utah court could have based its decision on, omitting the US constitution entirely. If the Utah court had done that, I don't think the SCOTUS would have anything to say about it.

Oh, well, here's hoping Justice Kennedy gets creative again.

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