Two things: 1 - Why is government even in the marriage business, and 2 - I'm sick of Utah being called a "conservative" state. High taxes, government involvement in every aspect of our lives, etc. We are not a conservative state. You can have guns here and that is it.
It is considered a conservative state because about 76 percent of the population voted Republican and because of the conservative main religion in the state. The idea that either party doesn't spend is laughable. Neither party is conservative in how the gov't spends money. They just have differences on how they should spend the money.