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General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: flowers on January 08, 2014, 09:13:54 pm

Title: Utah won't recognize existing same-sex marriages
Post by: flowers on January 08, 2014, 09:13:54 pm

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2014/01/08/Utah-wont-recognize-existing-same-sex-marriages/UPI-61651389210460/

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Utah officials Wednesday said the state will not recognize same-sex marriages performed before the U.S. Supreme Court stayed a ruling permitting gay marriage.

Derek Miller, chief of staff to Gov. Gary Herbert, sent a letter to state agencies saying existing gay marriages that occurred in the state would be placed "on hold" while the state appealed the high court's stay of a district court judge's ruling overturning a ban on same-sex marriage, the Salt Lake Tribune reported.

"Please understand this position is not intended to comment on the legal status of those same-sex marriages," the letter said. "That is for the courts to decide."

Title: Re: Utah won't recognize existing same-sex marriages
Post by: Rapunzel on January 08, 2014, 09:23:46 pm

good

Title: Re: Utah won't recognize existing same-sex marriages
Post by: mountaineer on January 08, 2014, 09:25:33 pm

Neither do I. What a coinkydink.