Friday, April 3, 2009

Iowa State Supreme Court's Ruling Institutes Same Sex Marriage in Iowa


About 10 years ago, the people of Iowa enacted a law defining marriage as between a man and a woman. Today, the Iowa State Supreme Court declared that law unconstitutional. Same gender marriages may begin in Iowa as soon as 3 weeks from today.

To read more, here's a link to the New York Times article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/04/us/04iowa.html?bl&ex=1238904000&en=e70ffe2956e3a3c3&ei=5087%0A

I was talking to my mom about the CA ballot proposition (prop 8), and said that this would become a national issue very soon. Well, it's here. It's something we should be talking about as a nation rather than saying, "Well, that's in California or Massachusettes, etc."

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