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What Marriage Equality Means In A Red State Obsessed With Marriage And Family
http://www.buzzfeed.com/hunterschwarz/what-marriage-equality-means-in-a-red-state-obsessed-with-ma
Couples wait to apply for marriage licenses at the Salt Lake County Clerks office in Salt Lake City, Utah, December 20, 2013. Jim Urquhart / Reuters / Reuters
Joanna and Lindi Barney were getting ready to go to a family Christmas party when they saw on Facebook that a federal judge had ruled Utah’s ban on marriage for same-sex couples unconstitutional. They were wearing shirts from the movie Frozen, their three-year-old daughter was in her pajamas, and their five-week-old daughter was asleep, but a friend who is an attorney told them the judge could issue a stay at any time, so they should go immediately.
“We just drove down,” Joanna Barney said. “We didn’t have our makeup on. We just kind of went as we were.”
They arrived at the Salt Lake County building in time to be one of 124 couples married Friday, a county record. The next day, hundreds lined up at the Weber County building hoping to receive marriage licenses, after hearing it would open on a Saturday. In the end, though, they were told they would have to wait until Monday.
Utahns with same-sex partners want to get married — not much different than the rest of the state’s population.
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