The Axe-Grinding Propelling Utah’s Self Inflicted Injury In Marriage?

JUDGE OVERTURNS “WILL OF THE PEOPLE”

by Cody Robert Judy, ©2014, blogging at CodyJudy

(Jan. 4, 2014) — The eyes of the Nation fell on Utah as the first same-sex weddings in Utah were held a week ago today (which just happened to be my birthday Dec 27th) just hours after Federal Judge, the Honorable Shelby, ruled the state’s 2004 Referendum banning same-sex marriage was unconstitutional. The R-Governor of Utah Gary Herbert was quick to draw his axe saying he’d use his power “to defend traditional marriage within the state’s borders” calling the Judge an ‘activist’ attempting to override the will of the people of Utah.

What Utah residents that voted for the referendum might find shocking is the same so-called “conservative leaders” including their Governor, U.S. Senators and Congressmen in the greatest breach of the Constitution’s history, have in fact been siding with the ‘activist’ agenda and doing pretty much anything and everything to see to it that the “transformation agenda” was carried out in supporting Obama’s eligibility that is contrary to the United States Constitution’s qualification requirements for a President, and in fact the U.S. Supreme Court Justice whose seat was filled by none other then Obama’s recommendation.

Sotomayor handles emergency requests from Utah as well as other Rocky Mountain states.

Now Utah’s people (less then a dozen of whom voted for the Presidential Candidate who challenged not only Obama’s Eligibility in 2012 and 2013 in Judy v. Obama 12-5276 that included the legal Sheriff’s Report of over 2500 hours of investigation stating Obama’s Long form Birth Certificate was a proven fabrication, but also McCain’s in 2008 in Judy v. McCain living in their own backyard) find themselves fighting for the very hair of marriage. Is it irony the whole state of Utah now finds they’re subjects of one of the Justices Obama nominated in Justice Sotomayor in their State Attorney General’s appeal that will easily cost the state, at the very least, two million dollars?

Utah’s no stranger to the political campaigns of Cody Robert Judy (myself). No, Sirree, I ran in 2002 for the 1st Congressional District, and three times for the U.S. Senate Seat: 2000 Judy v. Hatch, 2004 Judy v. Bennett and in 2010 Judy v. Bennett again, as my book Taking A Stand recalls in detail.

The Utah Referendum known as Amendment 3 in 2004 was passed by 65.86% stated as follows: 1) Marriage consists only of the legal union between a man and a woman. 2) No other domestic union, however denominated, may be recognized as a marriage or given the same or substantially equivalent legal effect.

The referendum was sold as a bill of goods that its proponents said would do 3 things:

1) Prevent state courts from making a ruling that current Utah marriage legislation as being unconstitutional.
2) Prevent state courts from forcing recognition of out-of-state marriages.
3) Prevent the creation of “counterfeit marriages”, such as civil unions.

They also said the amendment would not hurt heterosexual marriage, common law marriages, or the right to will property to whomever one wishes.

In one chop, Federal District Judge Shelby found, in a case brought by two gay men (which were different people from the two people in Utah who voted for Cody Robert Judy in 2012), making the claim that “the state law violated their right to equal protection and due process under the U.S. Constitution,” that the state’s current laws deny its gay and lesbian citizens their fundamental right to marry and, in so doing, demean the dignity of these same-sex couples for no rational reason,” Shelby asserted and “Accordingly, the court finds that these laws are unconstitutional.”

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