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If the gay couples who filed joint returns this year ("Same-sex couples: Court loss may be costly," Tribune, April 15) had been properly advised, they would have filed separately and then patiently waited for the 10th Circuit Court's ruling on Utah's constitutional Amendment 3. If the court sided with Judge Shelby's overturn of the amendment, thus validating the 1,300 homosexual marriages in question, those same couples could then submit amended returns as joint filers and receive full benefits.
Supporters of Amendment 3 are often accused of exaggerated objections to homosexual marriage, but this non-existent tax issue shows the other side to be complicit in the grandstanding.
Richard Ewing Davis
Stansbury Park