{"id":43250,"date":"2014-06-25T14:41:12","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T20:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/25\/utahs-gay-marriage-ban-is-struck-down.html"},"modified":"2014-11-05T14:05:23","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T21:05:23","slug":"utahs-gay-marriage-ban-is-struck-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/25\/utahs-gay-marriage-ban-is-struck-down.html","title":{"rendered":"Utah’s gay marriage ban is struck down"},"content":{"rendered":"
This is another one that may end up with SCOTUS, unless they decide to just let these rulings stand, but it coming from a federal appeals court lends it extra oomph. The key here is that the 10th Circuit includes Colorado, which may mean my own state's shameful constitutional ban may come into question as well (it's already being challenged).\ufeff<\/div>\n

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Federal appeals court strikes down Utah’s gay marriage ban, but stays its decision<\/a>
\n In a landmark decision Wednesday, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Utah’s ban on same-sex marriage violates the U.\n <\/p>\n

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This is another one that may end up with SCOTUS, unless they decide to just let these rulings stand, but it coming from a federal appeals court lends it extra oomph. The key here is that the 10th Circuit includes Colorado, which may mean my own state's shameful constitutional ban may come into question as … Continue reading “Utah’s gay marriage ban is struck down”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,109,350,25,718],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-church-state","category-civil-liberties","category-gay-stuff","category-marriage-equality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43793,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/23\/a-federal-judge-overturns-colorados-gay-marriage-ban.html","url_meta":{"origin":43250,"position":0},"title":"A federal judge overturns Colorado's gay marriage ban","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 23-Jul-14 6:52pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It does't mean anything immediately, as he stayed the ruling until SCOTUS weighs in on the Appeals Court ruling in Utah -- but this sort of slow pouring on of judicial consensus at state and federal levels is bound to have an impact on what the Supremes consider when it\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":43418,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/09\/marriage-equality-comes-another-big-step-closer-in-colorado.html","url_meta":{"origin":43250,"position":1},"title":"Marriage equality comes another big step closer in Colorado","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 9-Jul-14 8:05pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Ironically, \"civil unions,\" intended to get around Colorado's constitutional ban on gay marriage, were cited as evidence of unequal protection of the law in the ruling. 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