Salt Lake Mayor Wants Domestic Registry

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Mayor Rocky Anderson wants to let domestic partners in Salt Lake City document their relationships, saying a registry would allow people to signify "they are partners, that they formed a domestic partnership."

But whether he can legally do that in Utah is up for debate.

Some critics say such a move would run afoul of a state law approved by the largely conservative Utah electorate last year. The city's attorney is still researching the law's implications and whether it would block Anderson's plan.

The ballot initiative approved by voters last year changed the state constitution to say "no other domestic union, however denominated, may be recognized as a marriage or given the same or substantially equivalent legal effect."

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1. That sounds ripe for invalidation under the US Constitution

The Utah law, that is.

Ever heard of 'Equal Protection' ?

Wasn't some equivalent Colorado law struck down- i.e. one that essentially mandated discrimination ?