Sen. Derek Kitchen, who sued the state of Utah and won the right to marry, is now pushing to have same-sex marriage codified into law.
Sen. Kitchen, D-Salt Lake City, announced plans for a bill in the Utah State Legislature to formally remove the state's ban on same-sex marriage from the books. It is part of a nationwide movement in response to fears that a more conservative U.S. Supreme Court could ultimately overturn same-sex marriage, which it legalized in 2015.
"If we lose marriage equality at the federal level, through the Supreme Court, then it’s back to a states rights issue. There are so many states including Utah, my home state of Ohio, where if that would happen? Well, immediately those bans on same-sex marriage and recognition of out-of-state same-sex marriages would and could go back into effect," Obergefell told FOX 13 News in an interview.
The leaked draft opinion from the U.S. Supreme Court that threatens to overturn Roe v. Wade has sparked fears in the LGBTQ community that a more conservative block of justices could next take aim at marriage equality. Utah and 29 other states that still have a technical ban on same-sex marriage on the books.
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