Will An Appeals Court Stop Same-Sex Couples In Utah From Marrying On Christmas Eve?

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http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/will-an-appeals-court-stop-same-sex-couples-in-utah-from-mar


Andrea Dahl, left, marries Coral Mangus, her partner of 25 years, at the Salt Lake County Government Building in Salt Lake City, Utah, December 23, 2013. Jim Urquhart / Reuters

Same-sex couples got married throughout Utah on Monday, an unexpected 18th state with marriage equality in a year that saw success after success for marriage equality throughout the country.

The Monday marriages followed a weekend of wrangling over whether the Friday court ruling from U.S. District Judge Robert Shelby would remain in effect when clerks’ offices opened Monday.

The lack of guidance from state officials in advising county officials about the impact of the ruling has caused most of the confusion experienced by same-sex couples in recent days. It also has empowered a handful of counties to decide they would refuse to marry same-sex couples — from outright refusal in places like Utah Country to Cache County’s strategy of shutting the office to avoid questions altogether. Nonetheless, hundreds and hundreds of couples on Monday joined the 124 couples who married in Salt Lake County the day of Shelby’s ruling.

On Monday afternoon, as marriages were ongoing, Shelby refused to put his ruling on hold while the state appeals it, particularly not on account of the state’s argument that to do so would preserve the status quo. In fact, Shelby wrote, “[T]he status quo is currently that same-sex couples are allowed to marry in the State of Utah.”

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1. The answer, it would appear, is

HECK NO! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!