Same-sex Couples Shatter Marriage Records In Utah

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Same-sex Couples Shatter Marriage Records In Utah
Salt Lake Tribune | By By Marissa Lang
Posted: 12/28/2013 8:38 am EST




SALT LAKE CITY (RNS) -- In the week since a federal judge overturned Utah’s ban on same-sex marriage, the number of weddings in the state has skyrocketed, shattering records and accruing thousands of dollars for Utah’s 29 counties.

As of close of business Thursday (Dec. 26), more than 1,225 marriage licenses had been issued in Utah since last Friday (Dec. 20). Of those, at least 74 percent, or 905 licenses, were issued to gay and lesbian couples.

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With an average marriage license costing $40, counties in Utah made a grand total of more than $49,000 in the three-and-a-half days most county clerk’s offices were open this week.

About three-quarters of that money came from gay and lesbian couples seeking marriage licenses in the immediate aftermath of U.S. District Judge Robert J. Shelby’s ruling that overturned a statewide ban on same-sex marriages.

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[TheMastersNemesis]

1. Could Not Happen To A Better State.

[morningfog]

2. And now that Utah has same-sex marriage, it can never be undone.

California tried and failed to undo it.

[sibelian]

3. YAAY TEH END OF MARRIDGE IS NIGH

U KEEP SMACKIN DA STRAIGHTS, QUEER BROS

Or something.