No. 14-124

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RINTING

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789-0096

 

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 ASHINGTON

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D.

 

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20002

 

I

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T

HE

 

Supreme ourt of the United States

———— G

 ARY

R.

 

H

ERBERT

,

 IN HIS OFFICIAL CAPACITY  AS

G

OVERNOR OF

U

TAH

,

 AND

S

EAN

D.

 

R

EYES

,

 IN HIS OFFICIAL CAPACITY  AS

 A 

TTORNEY

G

ENERAL OF

U

TAH

,

 Petitioners,

 v. D

EREK

K 

ITCHEN

,

 

M

OUDI

S

BEITY 

,

 

K 

 AREN

 A 

RCHER

,

 

K 

 ATE

C

 ALL

,

 

L

 AURIE

W

OOD

,

  AND

K 

ODY

P

 ARTRIDGE

,

 INDIVIDUALLY 

,

 

 Respondents.

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On Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the United States Courts of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

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BRIEF OF

 AMICUS CURIAE

 FOUNDATION FOR MORAL LAW IN SUPPORT OF PETITIONERS URGING THAT A WRIT OF CERTIORARI BE GRANTED

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September 4, 2014 J

OHN

E

IDSMOE

Counsel of Record

F

OUNDATION FOR

M

ORAL

L

 AW

 One Dexter Avenue Montgomery, AL 36104 (334) 262-1245 eidsmoeja@juno.com

 

(i)

QUESTION PRESENTED

Whether the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits a state from defining or recognizing marriage only as the legal union between a man and a woman.

 

 (iii) TABLE OF CONTENTS Page QUESTION PRESENTED .................................. i TABLE OF CONTENTS ..................................... iii TABLE OF AUTHORITIES ................................ v STATEMENT OF IDENTITY AND INTER-ESTS OF

 AMICUS CURIAE

, FOUNDATION FOR MORAL LAW .......................................... 1 SUMMARY OF ARGUMENT ............................. 2  ARGUMENT ........................................................ 4 I. THE CONSTITTIONALITY OF UTAH’S MARRIAGE LAWS SHOULD BE DET-ERMINED BY THE TEXT OF THE CONSTITUTION, THE SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND ......................................... 4 II. THE UTAH CONSTITTION, ARTICLE III, AND UTAH CODE PROVISIONS DO NOT VIOLATE THE PRIVILEGES  AND IMMUNITIES CLAUSE, THE DUE PROCESS CLAUSE, OR THE EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE OF THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT AS INTERPRETED BY THIS COURT IN

 LAWRENCE V. TEXAS

 AND

UNITED  STATES V. WINDSOR

 ............................. 8  A. “All men are created equal” and as either male or female .......................... 11