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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.  Unf...

Official photographic portrait of US President Barack Obama (born 4 August 1961; assumed office 20 January 2009) (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) January 13, 2014 ( FRC ) - Justice Secretary Eric Holder was already held in contempt of Congress -- but a Supreme Court reprimand may not be far behind. Regardless of where the justices fall on the question of same-sex "marriage," they probably had to pick their jaws up off the floor after the country's chief law enforcer put the Court's latest marriage decisions through the paper shredder and promised to validate Utah's same-sex "weddings"  after  the Court's stay on counterfeit marriages. In plain rebellion to the justices' June ruling, Holder announced that DOJ would take matters into its own hands and offer more than 1,000 federal benefits to couples, who, under state law, aren't even legally married! Back in December, Judge Robert Shelby took a wild leap, declaring Utah's marriage am...

SALE LAKE CITY, January 14, 2014 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – In a time when public figures from reality TV stars and fast food franchise presidents are increasingly facing backlash for casual comments about homosexuality, a new policy from the Mormon Church defends traditional marriage and the institution of the family without apology – and “insists” on its right to be heard in the public square. “Changes in the civil law do not, indeed cannot, change the moral law that God has established,” the statement, issued by church leadership on Friday, says. “God expects us to uphold and keep His commandments regardless of divergent opinions or trends in society.” The Mormon temple in Salt Lake City The statement was released just days after U.S. District Judge Robert J. Shelby,  an Obama appointee, struck down Utah's state constitutional marriage protection amendment  and other laws defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman. Utah has the largest percentage of Mor...

Jan. 8, 2014 ( FRC ) - While the country shivered through frigid temperatures Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court put something else on ice: the same-sex "marriages" of Utah couples. After two weeks of chaos, America 's most powerful court put the brakes on one rogue judge's decision to single-handedly overturn the state's marriage amendment. The December 20 th  ruling took several people by surprise -- including Governor Gary Herbert (R), who called out District Court Judge Robert Shelby as an "activist" who jeopardized the state's right "to define marriage through ordinary democratic channels." For Utah, it was the second major marriage headline in less than a month -- thrusting the state back into the spotlight it left when Judge Clark Waddoups stunned everyone by decriminalizing polygamy. Unanimously, the nine U.S. Supreme Court justices agreed that one person shouldn't have the power to create same-sex "marriage" ...

SALT LAKE CITY , January 8, 2014 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has halted gay “marriage” in Utah , the governor has moved to vigorously enforce state law, which is supported by the vast majority of state citizens. In 2004, 66 percent of state voters approved  Amendment 3  to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman in the state Constitution . On December 20, the Friday before Christmas, U.S. District Judge Robert J. Shelby ,  an Obama appointee, struck down Utah's constitutional marriage protection amendment . Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has halted gay “marriage” in Utah, the governor has moved to vigorously enforce state law, which is supported by the vast majority of state citizens. Shelby had indicated he would not rule until January 7. At the time of his ruling, just before Christmas break, the state did not have a  bona fide  attorney general. Governor Gary Herbert, a Republican , immediately began wor...