While this ruling won’t immediately make it so everyone in Iowa has a positive attitude toward gay couples, it will make it manditory for those couples to be allowed to live there, as a married couple. People will hopefully start seeing gay couples and families as neighbors they run across on the PTA, not as aliens from the coasts, bent on destroying civilization.
As someone who lived for several years in Iowa, with lots of friends and family in Iowa, I think some of those small towns and their attitudes would surprise you.
I’ve lived here most of my life, in small towns and big. I doubt if much would surprise me about the people here. People are people no matter where you go, good and bad. If you aren’t here now, you aren’t hearing the opposition and the hatred that they are spouting out on every available media source. I’ve heard everything from boycotts of businesses who support “them” getting married, to new anti-gay-marriage legislation to constitutional amendments.
From the underwhelming voices of the supporters to the overwhelming garbage from the opposition, I have found very little to be proud of as of late.
Heh, I think the shock of going from making very good money to making no money and having to pull all-nighters (if my career dream comes true) will be more of a shock to the system than a switch from Ohio to Iowa would.
I can understand Scalia’s argument, but it doesn’t help his side at all. The obvious consequence of this line of reasoning is that bans on same sex marriage discriminate based on sex, and that’s subject to stricter scrutiny than discrimination based on orientation!