Utah homophobes: find yourself another country to be hateful in

The Utah state government sure knows how to treat its gay citizens with extreme mental cruelty. When 1,000 gay couples, discriminated against their entire lives in one of the most homophobic states, suddenly married after a federal appeals court tossed their homophobic voters' ban on gay marriage, state officials enticed the Supreme Court to halt further gay marriages pending state appeal of the lower court decision.  Now these 2,000 newlyweds have been tossed into "married limbo" as Utah officials ponder how to treat the thousand gay marriages.

 

Consider Randi White, seven months pregnant, and newly married partner Laura. Will their utterly natural and human desire to be their child's legal parents be quashed? While the 1,000 gay marriages remain legal, what will happen to their plans to be listed jointly on their health insurance, adopt existing children as their official parents, or have their names enshrined on their birth certificates.  No one knows if Utah officials will decide to continue honoring these marriages or move to invalidate them.            

Utah officials who have appealed the federal court decision striking down Utah's insidious gay marriage ban or are considering invalidating the 1,000 marriages that have made 2,000 newlyweds full Utah citizens for the first time, should consider relocating to a homophobe friendly land. A few candidates come to mind: North Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia.