Citing 'Harm,' Utah Files Supreme Court Emergency Request To Deny Married Couples Benefits

[Fearless]

The 10th Circuit federal Court of Appeals Friday evening ruled that a stay requested by the State of Utah will indeed expire and the State will have to recognize the legal civil marriages of about 1300 same-sex couples performed in December and January, unless the Supreme Court were to intervene.

This evening, Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes filed a 35-page emergency request for a stay with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

"Absent a stay," Reyes' petition claims, "there is a likelihood—indeed, a certainty—of irreparable harm to the State" should it be forced to recognize the 1300 legal civil marriages of same-sex couples.

Reyes claims recognizing the 1300 "interim marriages," as he calls them, will "moot the novel issues involved," denying the courts an opportunity to examine them.

http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/citing_harm_utah_files_supreme_court_emergency_request_to_deny_married_couples_benefits

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If the court picks up the case... this might be the big one we're waiting for. We'll see.

[defacto7]

1. "Citing 'Harm"

Well at least they're being honest as to their motive toward LGBT couples... harm.


what Irony

[easychoice]

2. Smelling salts and fainting couch on the way...

There is a reason we call utah the holyland in seattle.What a joke.

[shenmue]

3. They'll lose

Just because some church is looking over your shoulder and doesn't like you, doesn 't mean they have standing. Since when does everybody have to do what some disapproving religious people say?

[kaiden]

4. The State of Colorado filed a similar motion Monday with

the Colorado Supreme Court, asking that Court to stop the 64 county clerks from issuing marriage licenses to same sex couples (even though only three are issuing them to date) because letting gay couples marry would cause "harm to the status quo." Although same sex marriage bans are being ruled unconstitutional on nearly a daily basis (most often by Republican appointed jurists), the conservative States' attorneys general have gotten the memo: get a stay on these unconstitutional bans (citing the harm it will do to straight couples, the affront to God, the confusion it will cause to the States' business) and then kick these rulings up to SCOTUS, where a review will take years with the hope that once it does, there will be a favorable ruling for the "status quo." As Judge Crabtree said in our case, "If civil unions were the same as marriage, they'd be called marriage." Keep hope alive, folks.

[sakabatou]

5. *headdesk*

Yeah, "harm" that people can't be bigots.