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Monday, December 23, 2013

Utah Becomes 18th State To Legalize Same Sex Marriage

Alan: If St. Paul is right and spouses become "one body," have women in Mormon polygamist marriages always participated in same-sex marriage?

How about King David and all the other polygamist Israelite patriarchs?

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Utah's same-sex couples rush to get married. "A federal judge's ruling on Friday afternoon striking down Utah's ban on same-sex marriages touched off what Mayor Ralph Becker called a "thrilling pandemonium." Hundreds of people filled the hallways and spilled out onto the sidewalks on Friday, hoping to marry before the county clerk's offices closed for the weekend -- and before an appeals court could stay the decision that made Utah, at least for the moment, the 18th state to allow same-sex marriages. For gay couples, it was a seismic change in a state where 66 percent of voters approved a ban on same-sex marriage in 2004. The Mormon Church also played a pivotal role in supporting a 2008 measure that banned same-sex marriage in California." Jack Healy in The New York Times


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