rssIowa Supreme Court To Issue Same-Sex Marriage Decision Friday
Thursday, April 02, 2009 at 12:39 pm
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The legal challenge to Iowa’s same-sex marriage ban will finally come to a close tomorrow, when the Iowa Supreme Court issues its ruling in the case of Varnum vs. Brien. The Court is expected to post its decision on the Judicial Branch Web site by 8:30 a.m. Friday.
The case involves six same-sex Iowa couples who sued Polk County Recorder Timothy Brien in 2005 after his office denied them marriage licenses. The lawsuit argued that it would be unlawful to ban same-sex couples from marriage based on the equal protection and due process guarantees of the Iowa Constitution. The state’s Defense of Marriage Act, passed in 1998 by a 40-9 margin in the Senate and an 89-10 margin in the House, defines marriage as being solely between a man and a woman.
Iowa District Court Judge Robert Hanson sided with the plaintiffs, but later put a hold on his decision awaiting a verdict from the Supreme Court. Justices heard oral arguments in December.
If the Court sides with the same-sex couples, Iowa would become the first Midwestern state to allow same-sex marriage and only the fourth in the nation. However, Iowa has no marriage residency requirement, which would mean couples could travel to the state from around the country to be legally married..
Republicans have tried unsuccessfully to pass an amendment to the state Constitution for many years defining marriage as between one man and one woman. Democrats have always countered that legislators should wait for the Court’s decision before taking such a step. It would take at least two years for an amendment to make it onto the ballot to be voted on by the general public.
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Jason Hancock is a reporter for TWI’s sister site, The Iowa Independent.
6 Comments
Comment posted April 2, 2009 @ 10:33 am
My spouse and I have been happlily married for the past twenty five years. If someone would have told us 25 years ago that we had to live together and not be “married” (for whatever prejudicial reason–one of us was fat, or had a big nose, or black hair, or big feet, sneezed funny, didn't come from the same hometown, whatever the difference) we wouldn't be together today. When you marry (in our particular case justice of the peace) you marry family and society too. Gay people deserve that same right.
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Comment posted April 11, 2009 @ 11:28 pm
First rule when dealing with the issue of gay marriage: Never trust the comments of anyone who is connected with media or entertainment; those who must depend on society as a whole in order to make a living, whether it is through advertisement or through sales. They would sacrifice their own mothers/fathers for a dollar. Truth is not their forte.
Next: As long as there are people who believe in evolution vs. creation, or those who do not believe in God, or Christianity, we, the people (as a whole), will never make the connection between why our world continues to deteriate. Many will never make the connection between what God says will destroy us. Many will never make the connection in what God considers to be in direct conflict with his reasoning to create woman, which was/is to accommodate man in procreation and continue with his original invention of the human species. Life will never rise out of fetches. And if it did, it would stink to the high heavens. Revelations tells us that humans are damn to destroy themselves and how, in conjunction with Satan, it will be done. Fools are we.
Comment posted April 11, 2009 @ 11:32 pm
First rule when dealing with the issue of gay marriage: Never trust the comments of anyone who is connected with media or entertainment; those who must depend on society as a whole in order to make a living, whether it is through advertisement or through sales. They would sacrifice their own mothers/fathers for a dollar. Truth is not their forte.
Next: As long as there are people who believe in evolution vs. creation, or those who do not believe in God, or Christianity, we, the people (as a whole), will never make the connection between why our world continues to deteriate. Many will never make the connection between what God says will destroy us. Many will never make the connection in what God considers to be in direct conflict with his reasoning to create woman, which was/is to accommodate man in procreation and continue with his original invention of the human species. Life will never rise out of feces. And if it did, it would stink to the high heavens. Revelations tells us that humans are damn to destroy themselves and how, in conjunction with Satan, it will be done. Fools are we.
Comment posted April 12, 2009 @ 6:28 am
First rule when dealing with the issue of gay marriage: Never trust the comments of anyone who is connected with media or entertainment; those who must depend on society as a whole in order to make a living, whether it is through advertisement or through sales. They would sacrifice their own mothers/fathers for a dollar. Truth is not their forte.
Next: As long as there are people who believe in evolution vs. creation, or those who do not believe in God, or Christianity, we, the people (as a whole), will never make the connection between why our world continues to deteriate. Many will never make the connection between what God says will destroy us. Many will never make the connection in what God considers to be in direct conflict with his reasoning to create woman, which was/is to accommodate man in procreation and continue with his original invention of the human species. Life will never rise out of fetches. And if it did, it would stink to the high heavens. Revelations tells us that humans are damn to destroy themselves and how, in conjunction with Satan, it will be done. Fools are we.
Comment posted April 12, 2009 @ 6:32 am
First rule when dealing with the issue of gay marriage: Never trust the comments of anyone who is connected with media or entertainment; those who must depend on society as a whole in order to make a living, whether it is through advertisement or through sales. They would sacrifice their own mothers/fathers for a dollar. Truth is not their forte.
Next: As long as there are people who believe in evolution vs. creation, or those who do not believe in God, or Christianity, we, the people (as a whole), will never make the connection between why our world continues to deteriate. Many will never make the connection between what God says will destroy us. Many will never make the connection in what God considers to be in direct conflict with his reasoning to create woman, which was/is to accommodate man in procreation and continue with his original invention of the human species. Life will never rise out of feces. And if it did, it would stink to the high heavens. Revelations tells us that humans are damn to destroy themselves and how, in conjunction with Satan, it will be done. Fools are we.
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