Oops, we went too far!
Utah banned gay marriage, but now they're realizing that they may have gone too far:
"After rushing to write a ban on gay marriage into the state constitution, Utah legislators are stepping back to repair some of the damage the law could deal other kinds of domestic partners.
Taken literally, Utah's provision could deny hospital visitation or survivor's property rights to children being brought up by grandparents, or to senior citizens who live together but do not marry for financial reasons. Siblings living in the same household also could find themselves without customary rights.
Utah's Legislature — overwhelmingly Republican and Mormon, and one of the most conservative bodies in the nation — ignored warnings from the state's Republican attorney general that the amendment went too far. Utah voters ratified it with 66 percent approval in November.
Now, in a moment of sober reflection, the same lawmakers are looking at giving back to adults who live together but are ineligible to marry — a category that includes same-sex couples — some of the rights of husband and wife..."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=718&e=4&u=/ap/20050201/ap_on_re_us/utah_gay_marriage
-Jean Chen
posted by flika @ 2:10 PM
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3 Comments:
Jean-I think the link in your article is making the Sidebar drop down to the bottom of this site. To fix, edit your post and try inserting this:
The StoryPut it in place of and delete the URL below:
http://story.news.yahhoo.........etc...._gay_marriage.
That should work.
Jean-OOPS. I didn't realize the above comment would react to the HTML code and onlyh show "The Story" underlined. Email me at patrick@patrickanderson.net and I will send you the fix.
Oops! Thanks for the tech advice!
-Jean
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