NAT'L FOUNDATION TO DEFEND MARRIAGE OPENS IN UTAH: From the Associated Press

On the first anniversary of a Massachusetts Supreme Court ruling allowing same-sex marriage, two Utah attorneys announced a new foundation Thursday to defend traditional marriage across the country.

Monte Stewart and Bill Duncan's Marriage Law Foundation will provide legal support and resources against lawsuits challenging attacks on any state's ban on gay marriage.

The group will track legislation being passed on the issue while protecting laws that ban same-sex marriage against "judges not willing to defer to the will of the people on those laws," Duncan said. ...

Stewart said the group would also review legislation that provides benefits or other legal rights to co-habitating couples. There are many kinds of legislation that provide benefits of that nature that don't threaten heterosexual marriage, he said. ...

Board members include Robert Destro, also with the Columbus School; Maggie Gallagher, of New York, president of the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy and co-author of "The Case for Marriage," and William Maycock, an Atlanta attorney.

Dixie Leavitt, former president of the Utah Senate and father of former Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt, is also on the board.

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