)Laura Fefchak, right, and Nancy Robinson, center, of Urbandale, Iowa, (AP Photo/David Purdy
The state of Iowa's Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the state law banning gay marriage is illegal. The net effect of the ruling is that same sex couples can get married in the state of Iowa.
Iowa became the third state in the country and the first from the rural heartland to legalize same-sex marriage when its Supreme Court yesterday unanimously struck down the state's decade-long ban.
"Justices look at opinions from other states," said Jennifer C. Pizer, the national marriage project director for Lambda Legal, which brought the Iowa case. "There's a significant likelihood that [the decision] will influence other states, like California."
There is a growing trend in the United States toward legalizing gay marriage by legislatures and by courts ruling against same-sex marriage legislation. The times they are a changing. Chicago City Hall Examiner.
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Yeah, changing for the worse. But a not so closet pro tyranny liberal like you thinks that's great. When any degenerate amoral sexual deviant decides he has the right to a legal institution such as marriage, then society MUST accede to their wishes according to the activist liberal judges and you! Screw the will of the people. Screw conventional wisdom in place for thousands of years, the family arrangement, and everything decent and wholesome, just for the whims of a screaming selfish warped few who demand to remake society over into their pathetic sad destructive unhappy imitation of what is real and true.
Now that a little time has passed, the "victory" you're so happy about has been rejected by Maine and Clifornia. Still, I know you'd prefer that activist court judges would continue to force illegal changes to legal institutions onto America. That' how Obama and his buddies want to "remake" (destroy) it. But then you and Obama, like most liberal "progressives", don't care much for the existing constitutional republic and freedom, anyway.
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