Repeal of DOMA has unforeseen consequences in UTAH.
(Salt Lake City: TA News agency, June 1, 2014) In a 7 to two decision the Supreme Court has ruled that Utah’s prohibition against plural marriages is unconstitutional. The issue was brought to the court in the case of the state vs ben Dovid. Mr. Dovid, a Karaite Jew, sewed for his right to have his marriage to three wives recognized under Utah’s laws. Writing for the majority, Justice Scalia wrote, ” Marriage is not a Federal right. Each state must make its own laws . The inclusion n Utah’s constitution of a ban on plural marriages was written to conform to a federal requirement for entry of the territory into the Union. The intent and therefore the law is unconstitutional.”
The President welcomed the ruling abut his h9me state but noted, “The ruling does not mean that the Ms’s ben Dovid are now Mrs. Utah, like all other states has the right to make laws uncontaminated by accommodation to federal mandates. However, as an American and as the grandson of a plural marriage, I urge my fellow Utahins to support the ben Dovid family’s right to religious freedom.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-26/defense-of-marriage-act-provision-struck-down-by-top-u-s-court.html