SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Supreme Court lifted a stay Thursday on same-sex adoptions in the state, which had halted the issuance of birth certificates for same-sex parents.
With the stay lifted, the Utah Health Department is prepared to issue birth certificates to children of same-sex couples, a health department spokeswoman confirmed Thursday.
The Utah Attorney General's Office filed a petition for the stay in May after three Utah judges — Elizabeth Hruby-Mills, L.A. Dever and Andrew Stone — approved adoptions among same-sex couples who were married in Utah during a brief time it was legal after U.S. District Judge Robert Shelby overturned Utah's Amendment 3 that defined marriage as being between a man and a woman.
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