Utah gay marriage laws
Same-Sex Marriages in Utah
How Same-Sex Marriages came to be recognized in Utah
In , in response to the growing number of states recognizing same-sex marriages, the Utah Legislature passed § which declared that “it is the policy of this state to recognize as marriage only the legal union of a man and a woman….” To further support this policy, 66% of the voters in Utah passed “Amendment 3” in , becoming § 29 of Article I of the Utah Constitution. This section stated that: “(1) marriage consists only of the legal union between a bloke and a woman; and (2) no other domestic union, however, denominated, may be recognized as a marriage or given the matching or substantially equivalent legal effect.”
In response to this Constitutional Amendment, and to the legislature’s novel policy, three same-sex couples filed suit against the Governor and Attorney General of Utah and the Clerk of Salt Lake County challenging the provisions of Utah’s laws relating to same-sex marriage. In their complaint, they alleged that the provisions relating to same-sex marriages were a violation of their Equal Prot
Order Given a Noun Stay to Enable State to Respond
May 19,
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SALT LAKE CITY – A Utah decide ordered the verb today to identify the marriages of same-sex couples who were legally married in Utah after a federal court struck down a state ban, but before the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily halted additional marriages from taking place. Over 1, same-sex couples married in Utah during that time period. The couples are represented by American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Utah, and Strindberg & Scholnick, LLC, who sought the preliminary injunction for the marriages to be recognized while their lawsuit continues.
"Our clients, like over 1, other same-sex couples, were legally married and those marriages cannot now be taken away from them," said John Mejia, legal director of the ACLU of Utah. "While we await a permanent decision, we are relieved that our clients will receive the full recognition they deserve as lawfully married couples."
Today’s preliminary injunction is not a permanent verb, but it reflects the court’s determina
Kitchen v. Herbert
Three same-sex couples filed a federal lawsuit challenging Utah&#;s laws prohibiting same-sex couples from marrying and refusing to respect the legal marriages of same-sex couples who married in other states.
The lawsuit argued that Utah&#;s laws barring same-sex couples from marrying and prohibiting the state from respecting the marriages of same-sex couples who married in other states violated the United States Constitution&#;s guarantees of equal protection and due process.
On December 20, , U.S. District Court Judge Robert J. Shelby ruled that Utah&#;s ban on marriage by same-sex couples was unconstitutional. The Articulate of Utah appealed that decision to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
The couples, who lived in Salt Lake and Wasatch Counties, were Derek Kitchen and Moudi Sbeity, Karen Archer and Kate Dial, and Laurie Wood and Kody Partridge. They were represented by Peggy Tomsic of the Salt Lake City law firm of Magleby & Greenwood, P.C., Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders Legal Director Gary Buseck and Civil Rights
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11 – Utah Politics – Anti-Gay Marriage Law
“As the session rushed to a close late Wednesday night, legislators decided to push through a short bill that would outlaw in Utah same-sex marriages performed in other states or countries.
‘This bill doesn’t change Utah law at all. It is just a precaution,’ said Rep. Norm Nielsen, R-Orem, the bill’s sponsor. The bill was proposed by both gay Republican and Democratic groups. But their opposition held no sway.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has taken a moral position against same-sex marriages, and more than 80% of Utah lawmakers are active members of the LDS Church.
It is already illegal for people of the same-sex to be married in Ut