In a decision handed down yesterday, a judge in Iowa ruled that restricting marriage to opposite sex couples was unconstitutional and today marriage licenses are being issued to same sex couples. Of course, opponents will be appealing to the state supreme court but at least for now gay couples can wed!
Hey, I used to go to the Ames Unitarian church. Awesome.
Good for them. Unfortunately, per your link, a stay was almost immediately issued.
A stay was requested, but I don’t believe it has been granted yet.
It wasn’t updated when I looked before, but I see the stay has been issued now.
Bummer.
I was all ready to say that in the state of my birth and the state of my residence, judges have brains.
(glancing at tdn’s location) Iowa is part of Laurasia?
I heard about this, but didn’t know it had come to fruition. Yay! Red state my ass!
Yep. Iowa, Glascow, Moscow, Beijing – all in Laurasia.
Don’t they usually go blue?
You’re thinking of Michigan. Ann Arbor, specifically.
However I spent a month in Ottumwa and it really blew.
No, I’m thinking Iowa. Looking it up, they went blue in 2000 and red in 2004.
So how anyone wanna start taking bets on how long it’ll take the Iowa Supreme Court to overule the judge? :rolleyes:
Yay us!!
I might go down the rainbow district and have a drink on that one this weekend. I bet there’s going to be a party.
No state supreme court has ever overturned a lower court ruling in favor of same-sex marriage.
AFAIK there’s only been once instance of a lower court ruling in favor of same-sex marriage (Goodridge v. Department of Public Health). And that ruling was based on a entirely different constitution.
Constitutional ammendment in 5… 4… 3… 2…
I hope it’s upheld on appeal and they don’t get an amendment, not just so it’d be legal, but so it would be Iowa. Just like the fourth place in Canada was Yukon. It’s just so, yep, Iowa.
My wording was imprecise. New Jersey and Vermont have upheld lower court rulings requiring legal recognition of same-sex couples. Hawaii’s court overturned a lower court and, had a DOMA amendment not been passed, would have ordered the state to recognize marriages. My point still stands that the assumption that the Iowa supreme court will overturn this out of hand is not supported by history.
Am I the only one who was somewhat extremely shocked by this news?
Iowa, of all places!
Hmm.
