"It feels like it's very much a historic time," said Michael Westley, media and special events coordinator for the Utah Pride Center. "I've been out in Salt Lake City for 15 years, and I've never seen the rallies and marches and the energy that I have since the passage of Proposition 8."
Momentum, however, might be all the shifts in Vermont and Iowa offer Utahns. Legal experts say the decisions will have almost no impact on the state's laws.
The decisions in Vermont and Iowa "increases the likelihood for conflict between states with strongly contradictory marriage policies," said Brigham Young University family law professor Lynn Wardle.
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