By The Associated Press A coalition of religious organizations has come together to urge a federal appeals court to uphold same-sex marriage bans in Utah and Oklahoma, saying unions between a man and woman are best for children, families and society. The argument was made in a 42-page brief filed Monday afternoon to a Denver-based…
By Katherine Weber Same-sex marriages in Utah were halted Monday (Jan. 6) by U.S. Supreme Court justices while the state appeals a lower court’s ruling allowing such unions. The Supreme Court released a brief statement Monday saying it ruled to put the marriages on hold in order to “minimize the enormous disruption to the state…
A federal judge in Utah ruled last week that a part (but not all) of the state’s anti-polygamy law is unconstitutional. As Joe Carter of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission writes: “The ruling appears to say that a person who is legally married to one spouse cannot legally marry a second spouse…
By JJ Feinauer A new study by the Chronicle of Philanthropy places Utah as the most charitable state in the country. “The Mormon tradition of tithing is a primary reason residents of this state well outpace those in every other place in America,” the bi-weekly newspaper wrote on its website. As the study shows, there…