EIGHTEEN!

[rmd]

Utah? Well, gosh... Heck yes. WELCOME TO THE EVER-EXPANDING PARTY!

Comments

[lillibet.livejournal.com]

Woohoo!

Maybe they all don't want to be left out of the 2013 grand-slam and stuck with the last-standing bigot crowd.

[quietann.livejournal.com]

This one is going to be.... interesting.

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

I dunno. They may actually be trying to set things up for polygamy marriages. Which isn't technically bad.

[miss-chance.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure Utah really counts (yet). Seems to me that Utah is the one who shows up at the party, stands around outside talking about what a lame party it is, and how everyone in there is a loser... but who actually shows up every time there's a party just to talk about how they didn't want to go anyway, so that every one suspects Utah doesn't have anywhere else to go on Saturday night.

[i-leonardo.livejournal.com]

*PTPH*SNORK* !

(dammit...another beverage/keyboard incident.)

[miss-chance.livejournal.com]

I think maybe you can get a discount on keyboards if you buy them in bulk.

[alanj]

UTAH!?!!!!???!!

[pywaket.livejournal.com]

*jaw hits floor*

I'm stunned. Pleased, but stunned. I have a funny feeling this one's going all the way to the Supremes, since I can't imagine most counties other than Salt Lake and Park going along with this...

[pywaket.livejournal.com]

In fact, just last week another one of Utah's laws about co-habitation was struck down.

[pywaket.livejournal.com]

Did you happen to see this:

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-october-29-2013/last-gay-standing

It's actually kinda heartwarming.

[lillibet.livejournal.com]

That's beautiful!

[achinhibitor.livejournal.com]

It's a federal court, and the decision was based on the 14th Amendment, which isn't a cause which has been endorsed by the Supreme Court (yet). So it's hardly a done deal. It's not even tremendously surprising that it's in Utah, because the judge's attitudes aren't necessarily representative of Utahans.

But... The SC is gonna have a hard time dodging the central equal-protection issue now, unless the appeals court reverses the district court. The appeals court is the 10th circuit court, which I don't think has been heard from yet.