A.G. candidates unite against gay marriage amendment | Salt Lake Tribune

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A.G. candidates unite against gay marriage amendment
Utah ballot: McCullough, Shurtleff and Skordas all agree the measure would have negative consequences

By Rebecca Walsh
The Salt Lake Tribune

Legal training trumped political self-interest when three candidates for attorney general issued a rare joint statement Friday against a proposed amendment to the Utah Constitution meant to block gay marriage.

Libertarian Andrew McCullough, Republican Mark Shurtleff and Democrat Greg Skordas say the potential ramifications of the ballot question forced them to issue the unusual news release. Although Shurtleff opposes gay marriage, McCullough does not and Skordas will not say where he stands on the fundamental question, the three candidates came together - on paper at least.

The statement said "because proposed Amendment 3 goes far beyond simply defining marriage, and would prove unnecessarily hurtful to many Utahns and their families, we oppose the amendment."

As written by Draper Republican Rep. LaVar Christensen for the 2004 Legislature, Amendment 3 has two parts. Like proposed constitutional changes on the ballot in at least 10 states this year, Utah's amendment would define marriage as the union between a man and a woman. A second clause prohibits recognition of common law marriages and civil unions: "No other domestic union, however denominated, may be recognized as a marriage or given the same or substantially equivalent effect."

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1. Yes in Utah it needs to say a man and SOME women or they'll be fucked

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2. To some, their bigotry is all that matters.

What a nasty little amendment.