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Gay marriage catches conservative Utah off guard
Associated Press ^ | Dec 21, 2013 7:39 PM EST | Michelle L. Price

Posted on 12/21/2013 7:43:18 PM PST by Olog-hai

A day after a judge’s surprise ruling overturned Utah’s same-sex marriage ban, at least one county clerk intended to open early Saturday to issue licenses.

About 40 minutes north of Salt Lake City, about 300 hundred people showed up at the Weber County Clerk’s Office on Saturday afternoon but were later turned away without marriage licenses. […]

The confusion Saturday and reports of other crowds scrambling to find an open office illustrated how gay marriage caught many in Utah off guard. …

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: activistjudge; activistjudges; gaymarriage; gaystapo; homosexualagenda; judicialactivism; lawsuit; ruling
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To: Olog-hai

Utah passed it’s marriage amendment by 66% in 2004.

Freegards


21 posted on 12/22/2013 6:46:12 AM PST by Ransomed
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To: Theodore R.

When the Morman Church, who sponsors more Boy Scouts Troups than any other religion endorsed and praised fags coming into the Boy Scouts, you knew it was a matter of time before the Morman Church caved on queer “marriage”. As the Morman Church goes in Utah, so goes everything else. The Church used to be pretty conservative but no more. Next will be a press conference from some higher up the ladder “bishop” saying that the Morman Church has lifted restrictions on poligamy.


22 posted on 12/22/2013 6:48:16 AM PST by NKP_Vet ("Rather than love, than money, than fame, then give truth" ~ Henry David Thoreau)
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To: Impy

they may very well get a defeat ... cause this judge is rogue ... they gonna get an injunction, the circuit court will reverse ... SCOTUS won’t hear this yet.


23 posted on 12/22/2013 8:01:46 AM PST by campaignPete R-CT (h2h? head-to-head)
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To: Olog-hai

again, idiot and treasonous judges think THEY are the authors of our Constitutions and what they say about “rights”, not we the people


24 posted on 12/22/2013 10:51:02 AM PST by Wuli
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