fairly certain gay marriage is now legal in Iowa

[wackadoodle]

www.rightwingwatch.org/content/iowa-marriage-ruling-good-bad-and-ugly

Unless 'unconstitutional' means something other than what I think. I can already hear the bigots, sorry, 'defenders of religious rights' whining about activist judges.

[Armand Tanzarian]

First of all, its Iowa. Secondly, yes, gays can get married starting about 3 weeks from now.

[wackadoodle]

I always get those mixed up. I cant seem to remember anything about any state that isnt on the coast.

[Pyena]

Wow, go Iowa!

[schizophonic]

It's easy to remember. Iowa is the one we liberated from Saddam, and Idaho is the one seeking Nuclear weapons. Or did I get that backwards?

Anyway, that's great. Go IOWA!

[mice34]

YAY IOWA. No doubt this will bring lots of hilarious fundie-head imploding quotes.

[devilschaplain2]

Hooray for Iowa, Massachusetts, and Connecticut! (Suck on THAT, California!)

[Vene]

I'll leave it up to you guys if this is an appropriate or inappropriate use of fap.

[dantesvirgil]

Awesome. In related news, my state legislature in West Virginia just struck down a proposal to put banning gay marriage in the state constitution based on the fact that it is an equality issue. (Of course we still have a "law" defining marriage--but putting it into the Constitution like California did was considered no problem for this state. Suck it, bigots.)

I'll just let that sit a while. West Virginia. Struck it down.

Armageddon is coming.

[Lady Renae]

Apr 3, 2009 12:14:02 GMT -5 John E said:

Iowa Court Says Gay Marriage Ban Is Unconstitutional
Monica Davet and Liz Robbins, NY Times, April 3, 2009

DES MOINES — Iowa became the first state in the Midwest to approve same-sex marriage on Friday, after the Iowa Supreme Court unanimously decided that a 1998 law limiting marriage to a man and a woman was unconstitutional.

[...]

“The Iowa statute limiting civil marriage to a union between a man and a woman violates the equal protection clause of the Iowa Constitution,” the justices said in a summary of their decision.

And later in the ruling, they said: “Equal protection under the Iowa Constitution is essentially a direction that all persons similarly situated should be treated alike. Since territorial times, Iowa has given meaning to this constitutional provision, striking blows to slavery and segregation, and recognizing women’s rights. The court found the issue of same-sex marriage comes to it with the same importance as the landmark cases of the past.”

Post 'moved' here due to it being the first of the two threads created on the subject. If I could actually merge threads, I would have done that, but it looks like proboards isn't equipped for it. /mod mode

[devilschaplain2]

Apr 3, 2009 12:40:01 GMT -5 dantesvirgil said:

Awesome. In related news, my state legislature in West Virginia just struck down a proposal to put banning gay marriage in the state constitution based on the fact that it is an equality issue. (Of course we still have a "law" defining marriage--but putting it into the Constitution like California did was considered no problem for this state. Suck it, bigots.)

I'll just let that sit a while. West Virginia. Struck it down.

Armageddon is coming.

Alright, hooray (kind of) for West Virginia for recognizing civil rights (sort of)!

[deliciousdemon]

West Virginia? Seriously? Holy shit.

[schizophonic]

Apr 3, 2009 12:09:54 GMT -5 @devilschaplain2 said:

Hooray for Iowa, Massachusetts, and Connecticut! (Suck on THAT, California!)

Legally, they can't anymore.

[Thejebusfire]

Apr 3, 2009 12:40:01 GMT -5 dantesvirgil said:

Awesome. In related news, my state legislature in West Virginia just struck down a proposal to put banning gay marriage in the state constitution based on the fact that it is an equality issue. (Of course we still have a "law" defining marriage--but putting it into the Constitution like California did was considered no problem for this state. Suck it, bigots.)

I'll just let that sit a while. West Virginia. Struck it down.

Armageddon is coming.

Well, atleast they didn't make hate a law.

[MozMode]

Yay Iowa!