A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that California’s gay marriage ban violates the federal constitution. The initiative vote, known as Proposition 8, was declared unconstitutional by a lower court in 2010. The 2-1 ruling will likely be appealed to the U.S. Supreme...

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a ruling by Judge Vaughn Walker declaring Proposition 8 unconstitutional.

After a 90-minute hearing in front of a standing-room-only audience, the latest attempt at a statewide nondiscrimination bill was squashed with a 4-2 vote in a legislative committee. The bill, SB51, which was sponsored by Sen. Ben McAdams, D-Salt Lake City, mirrors legislation already passed in 14 Utah municipalities.

A federal appeals court is expected to rule Tuesday, Feb. 7, on the constitutionality of California’s Proposition 8, a 2008 ballot initiative banning gay marriage.

In May, 2011, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said, “By definition, if you run for president, anything is on the table.” He was also a huge proponent of using the media to air the president’s dirty laundry and during the Monica Lewinsky scandal Gingrich lead the fight to expose former President Bill Clinton’s infidelities. But apparently he forgot his principles during a recent Republican debate when he told CNN’s John King, “I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office, and I am appalled that you would begin a presidential debate on a topic like that.” King was asking about an interview with Gingrich’s second wife who said he wanted to have an “open marriage.”

GOP presidential candidate and current frontrunner Newt Gingrich is hitting all the headlines because his second wife told ABC News he wanted an open marriage. Gingrich refuted the claims and attacked anyone who might ask him about the allegations. But Gingrich didn’t want an open marriage – he wanted a mistress, as activist and author Dan Savage said, “Newt Gingrich wants us to know that he did not ask his second ex-wife for an open marriage. An honest open relationship was never on the table. Newt and Callista’s six-year-long adulterous relationship was grounded in deceit and betrayal from the start, and Newt and Callista never wavered from the path of deceit and betrayal.”

The Righteously Outrageous Twirling Corps of Salt Lake City will host their first practice/open house of the year. Logan Brueck, director of the award-winning group reminds us “no experience is needed to join."

As the Republican presidential race heats up and the field narrows, Mitt Romney is being asked to release his recent tax records to the American public. He’s facing allegations of off-shore accounts in the Cayman Islands and other tax-harboring techniques as he admits that he pays a much lower tax rate, just 15 percent, than most Americans.