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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — State officials say the FBI is making it difficult for Utah to enforce a new state law that would beef up background checks for driving privilege cards issued to immigrants who illegally entered the country. Utah's Legislature approved a measure earlier this year that calls for the state to use a FBI criminal database to screen card applicants for any outstanding criminal warrants. The state would then alert federal immigration officials. But Sen. Curt Bramble told The Salt Lake Tribune that the FBI won't allow Utah to use its database if that information will be shared with another agency_even another federal agency.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah-based Mormon church has given its first-ever charitable donation to an LGBT community center in Salt Lake City. The Utah Pride Center says in a statement that the contribution will be used for a program helping homeless and low-income youth.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Episcopalians have voted to allow religious weddings for same-sex couples, just days after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized gay marriage nationwide. The vote came in Salt Lake City at the denomination's national assembly. The measure passed by an overwhelming margin in the House of Deputies, the voting body of clergy and lay people at the meeting. Under the new rules, clergy can decline to perform the ceremonies.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An estranged wife of polygamist leader Lyle Jeffs plans to testify against the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and two polygamist towns on the Utah-Arizona line. The Salt Lake Tribune reports the lawsuit accuses the towns, collectively known as Short Creek, of discriminating against non-FLDS residents.
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