The U.S. Supreme Court has granted the State of Utah’s request to stay a ruling that would have fired it to recognize the legal, civil marriages of 1300 same-sex couples.
Minutes ago the U.S. Supreme Court weighed in once again on the State of Utah’s attempts to maintain its ban on same-ex marriage and thwart the rights of legally-marriage same-sex couples. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled earlier this week that Utah must recognize the marriages of the 1300 couples who married in December and early January after a federal judge delated Utah’s ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional.
GOP Attorney General of the State of Utah, Sean Reyes, Wednesday filed a motion with the Supreme Court, requesting a stay on the 10th Circuit’s ruling. Reyes claimed if the Court did not grant it, Utah would suffer “chaos” and “irreparable harm.”
“Absent a stay,” Reyes’ petition claimed, “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 claimed recognizing the 1300Â “interim marriages,” as he called them, would “moot the novel issues involved,” denying the courts an opportunity to examine them.Â
Those “issues” are actually people — a fact Reyes neglected to mention.
The Supreme Court’s ruling was unsigned, and merely two sentences long.
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Image: Michael Adam Ferguson and J Seth Anderson, the first same-sex couple to marry in Utah. Photo by Marriage Equality USA – Utah via Facebook