LETTER FROM
THE EDITOR
HUFFINGTON
03.02.14
ART STREIBER
Between
Two
Worlds
I
N THIS WEEK’S issue,
Lila Shapiro travels to
Salt Lake City, Utah, to
talk to recently married
gay couples in the state.
Lila meets Sally, 48, a former
Mormon who married Brenda, her
longtime partner and the mother
of her children, after Judge Robert
Shelby of the U.S. District Court
for Utah struck down the state’s
ban on same-sex marriage on Dec.
20 of last year. The window of opportunity to marry closed shortly
thereafter, however. As Lila writes,
“On Jan. 6, the U.S. Supreme Court
granted the state’s request to stop
marrying same-sex couples for the
immediate future, as the case makes
its way through the appeals courts.”
As a newly married woman,
Sally found herself stuck between
two cultures — her long-held Mor-
mon values and the unfamiliar gay
rights movement.
“I don’t fit in anywhere,” Sally
tells Lila the morning after a mass
wedding reception for gay couples
in the state. “I’m not angry at the
church, but I don’t fit in there, and
I didn’t fit in last night.”
Despite her discomfort, for the
first time in her life, Sally was
compelled to stand up for gay
rights in the weeks after the initial
ruling and her marriage. “My heart
is heavy, and I am tired,” she wrote
in a blog post for Marriage Equal-
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