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Utah stands for traditional marriage

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Utah Standing for Marriage I was honored,  on Tuesday , to be able to join hundreds of pro-marriage supporters at the Salt Lake City Capitol Rotunda for  a wonderful rally supporting Utah's marriage amendment. The turnout was great, and I take my hat off to the organizers who did such a fantastic job pulling the event together. But even more so, I owe high praise to the many wonderful Utah citizens I saw there who came out to express their pro-marriage views and who did so with such positivity, kindness, and dignity. In his " State of the State " address the following day, Governor Gary Herbert   stressed how important those elements are to a healthy public discourse , saying that he wished for Utah to "be a model of how to work through honest disagreements with civility and respect." Well, of course Governor Herbert is right, and I can honestly say from what I saw  on Tuesday  that pro-marriage Utahans are already fulfilling that wish.  Unfortun