Iowa Judge Allows Same-Sex Couples To Wed
August 31, 2007 by Sumo
DES MOINES, Iowa — A county judge struck down Iowa’s decade-old gay marriage ban as unconstitutional Thursday and ordered local officials to process marriage licenses for six gay couples. Gay couples from anywhere in Iowa could apply for a marriage license from Polk County under Judge Robert Hanson’s ruling.
Less than two hours after word of the ruling was publicized, two Des Moines men applied for a license, the first time the county had accepted a same-sex application. The approval process takes three days.
With all the uproar about this…it is expected that next week a hearing will be held on the stay motion. Christopher Rants (ironic name) who is the House Minority Leader…made it clear there’s a need for a state constitutional amendment for banning gay marriage. He also said in disbelief that there will be a vote in January on this issue.
If it is good enough for the people in Massachusetts, it is good enough for the rest of the country. It’s time for the religious right (who are mostly hypocrites anyway) to get their heads out of the sand…and be generous and helpful to the lives and well being of others, whether they like or agree with their life style. I don’t agree with the conservative life style…so maybe they should put that in their pipe and smoke that!
and now that 20 couples raced down to the courthouse for licenses, the same judge issued an injunction until the thing hits the appeals courts.
sigh. and nothing changes and nothing changes and nothing changes. but it was encouraging, coming out of iowa. and maybe there’s hope that the iowa appeals court will NOT overturn the judge’s ruling.
Yeah…I O W A! Knock me down with a feather! It doesn’t get more righty than that. Although…the times they are a changin’ I think…people are more worried about our world business and not sweating the home grown so much. More people are coming around to the fact that other peoples lives are their own…after all…it doesn’t effect theirs really. It’ time people started having empathy for others!