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Utah gay marriages performed in December have been ruled valid, even as gay marriage remains illegal. Same-sex adoptions were partly legalized and then halted. It's one great hazy state of limbo.
Derek Kitchen and Moudi Sbeity are gay and in love and not married. They want to be married, and they could have been married, except it wouldn’t have been exactly right. Kitchen and Sbeity like to do things right.
Colorado has also got a lawsuit wending its way through the system, but gay-rights activists have been worried about taking the case before the conservative Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.