It was a quiet morning at the Salt Lake City Recorder’s Office. There were no celebrations or crowds waiting for the doors to open at 8 a.m.
But at 8:20, two women entered the office saying they wanted to sign the city’s new Mutual Commitment Registry.
When acting recorder Chris Meeker told Brandie Balken and Lisa LeDuc they’d be the first couple on the registry, Balken responded, “fantastic.”
The two women have been a couple for seven years, and had with them legal documents proving their reliance on each other. By 8:30 a.m. the couple had signed up and received certificates from the city.
Just don’t call them “domestic partnerships”–
The city’s registry almost didn’t happen after it was proposed by Mayor Ralph Becker and the City Council gave it unanimous support. Proposed legislation would have barred the registry, but lawmakers in the end approved another proposal that required the name be changed from its original title of Domestic Partnership Registry.
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So can they have multiple entries in the mutual commitment registry? Then we’ll know it’s in Utah.
Posted 18 Apr 2008 at 4:56 am ¶SLC does amaze us (in positive ways) from time to time! Don’t you love Ralph?
Posted 18 Apr 2008 at 5:39 am ¶Utah may join the millenium yet!
Posted 18 Apr 2008 at 6:54 am ¶Yeah for Salt Lake, what a great first step!
Posted 18 Apr 2008 at 8:23 am ¶YAY Salt Lake! I’m so glad I moved here instead of staying in Logan. I’m so much happier and it’s a much better place for me.
Posted 18 Apr 2008 at 8:39 am ¶Sweet!
Posted 18 Apr 2008 at 9:39 am ¶Awww, happy wishes to the newlyweds, and may they have full protection and recognition under the law one day soon.
Posted 19 Apr 2008 at 8:58 am ¶Very nice!
Baby steps…
Posted 19 Apr 2008 at 9:09 am ¶OMG, I LOVE that it’s called The Mutual Commitment Registry now. It sounds even more marriage-y. Buttars and Co. can stick that in their pieholes.
On another note, I need a LSG intervention. I’m addicted, damn you.
Posted 24 Apr 2008 at 12:28 pm ¶Post a Comment