Gay marriage utah sotomayor biography
Gay marriage utah sotomayor biography
Marianna sotomayor wikipedia...
Supreme Court Orders Halt to Utah Gay Marriages
Jax and Heather Collins get married at the Salt Lake County Clerk's office, Dec 23, 2013., but the Supreme Court has halted gay weddings in Utah.
Deseret News/AP Photo
The Supreme Court has ordered a halt to same sex marriages in Utah.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor referred the issue to the full court and the court granted a request from Utah to block same sex marriages from proceeding, at least while the state appeals a district court decision that ruled the state's ban on gay marriage violated the constitutional rights of gays.
Since the lower court's ruling on Dec.
20, hundreds of same sex marriages have been carried out in Utah.
In court papers, Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes had argued that putting the lower court ruling on hold was "urgently needed." Reyes said that each gay marriage "is an affront not only to the interests of the state and its citizens in being able to define marriage through ordinary democratic channe