Utah Constitutional Amendment 3

Constitutional Amendment 3

November 2, 2004

Utah Marriage Amendment
Results
Choice
Votes %
Yes 593,297 65.86%
No 307,488 34.14%
Valid votes 900,785 95.62%
Invalid or blank votes 41,225 4.38%
Total votes 942,010 100.00%
Registered voters/turnout 1,278,251 70.47%

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Utah Constitutional Amendment 3 was an amendment to the Utah state constitution that sought to define marriage as a union exclusively between a man and woman. It passed in the November 2, 2004, election, as did similar amendments in ten other states.

The amendment, which added Article 1, Section 29, to the Utah Constitution, reads:

  1. Marriage consists only of the legal union between a man and a woman.
  2. No other domestic union, however denominated, may be recognized as a marriage or given the same or substantially equivalent legal effect.

On December 20, 2013, federal judge Robert J. Shelby of the U.S. District Court for Utah struck down Amendment 3 as unconstitutional under the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the U.S. Constitution.