KUER Local News
(2004-01-13)
SALT LAKE CITY, UT
(ksut) -
A lawsuit has been filed in federal court challenging Utah's ban on polygamy. The lawsuit is being filed on behalf of G. Lee Cook and J. Bronson who were denied a marriage license in Salt Lake City on December 22nd because Cook was already married. Cook's legal wife had given her consent to the additional marriage.
The lawsuit says the county violated the plaintiffs' First Amendment rights to practice their religion and cites the recent U-S Supreme Court ruling striking down a Texas sodomy law. In that case, justices said that the government could not interfere in what gay men and women do in the privacy of their homes.
Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff says the lawsuit goes way beyond the privacy interest the Supreme Court ruled on.
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