On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 21:48 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is same-sex marriage legally recognized in Utah? If not, then > > there is only "hetero marriage". You can't discriminate against > > what doesn't exist. > > To my knowledge, the courts of Utah have never said anything about > same-sex marriages entered into in other jurisdictions. > > Still, regardless of whether the state of Utah recognizes a marriage, > that is surely a different question from whether the marriage has, in > fact, occurred.
Making that distinction is, IMO, cracking open a very large barrel of very nasty monkeys. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA "Whatever may be the moral ambiguities of the so-called demoratic nations and however serious may be their failure to conform perfectly to their democratic ideals, it is sheer moral perversity to equate the inconsistencies of a democratic civilization with the brutalities which modern tyrannical states practice." Reinhold Nieburhr, ca. 1940 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
