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Obama admin. announces it will recognize Utah gay ‘marriages’ after state says it won’t

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WASHINGTON, D.C. , January 10, 2014 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder   has announced  that the federal government will recognize same-sex “marriages” contracted during the brief period between December and January  when such unions took place legally  in Utah , before the U.S. Supreme Court   put a halt  to them. The announcement comes two days after Utah state officials announced that they  would not recognize the “marriages”  while the state’s challenge to a District Court ruling that struck down Utah’s voter-approved traditional marriage amendment makes its way through the courts. “I am confirming today that, for purposes of federal law, these marriages will be recognized as lawful and considered eligible for all relevant federal benefits," said Attorney General Holder (The Idiot) In  a statement , Holder said his decision to grant “married” Utah same-sex couples federal marriage benefits was based upon t...

Utah won’t recognize 1000+ gay ‘marriages’ contracted after judge struck down marriage amendment

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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...

Immoral Homosexual marriage stopped by the State

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Immoral Homosexual couples in Utah , the United States Supreme Court on Monday blocked further same-sex marriages there while state officials appeal a decision allowing such unions. The development created what Utah’s attorney general called “legal limbo” for the same-sex couples who had wed in the state in recent weeks. With the state’s ban on such unions reinstated for now, many wondered whether their window to marry in Utah had closed forever. “As remarkable and miraculous as it was, we’re still cognizant of the fact that this still is one of the most conservative states in the union,” said Michael Ferguson, half of the first gay couple to receive a marriage license in the state. “I don’t feel a sense of despair or hopelessness or anything remotely close to that. This is part of living in a civil society where we have the rule of law.” Although Utah had warned gay couples that their marriages could be dissolved if it succeeded in its legal appeals, the state had also begun granti...

Immoral Homosexual Marriage Now Legal in One-Third of U.S. States

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Today a judge struck down Utah's 2004 ban on same-sex marriage as unconstitutional. If the ruling stands, Utah would become the 18th state to permit gays and lesbians to wed. The Associated Press reports : 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 says the state failed to show that allowing same-sex marriages would affect opposite-sex marriages in any way, and the state's unsupported fears and speculations are insufficient to justify deny allowing same-sex marriages. Update (Dec. 19): New Mexico has become the 17th state (plus D.C.) to l egalize same-sex marriage , after the state's supreme court ruled today that denying marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples is unconstitutional. The Washington Post notes : Many counties in New Mexico had already been issuing marriage licenses to...