“That” being Iowa‘s recent district court ruling that same-sex couples have the right to marry under the state constitution.
An Iowa district court ruled Thursday that same-sex couples can marry based on the state constitution’s guarantee of equal treatment, court documents show.
An Iowa district judge ruled in favor of same-sex marriage.
The ruling was in response to a December 2005 lawsuit brought by six same-sex couples seeking to wed. They were denied marriage licenses and claimed such treatment violates equal-protection and due-process clauses in the Iowa constitution.
The court also struck down a state law declaring valid marriages are only between a man and woman.
Let that last sentence sink in- I almost can’t believe my eyes.
Of course, I have to go and kill the penguins and say that I doubt this ruling will stand- this wasn’t decided at the State Supreme Court level. But still, as I said to my dear friend Pisco, I believe such rulings are for the greater good and in the end, send messages that people are growing weary of intolerance and inequality.
So thank you, Judge Robert Hanson, for making your statement. May the day come when it is a reality shared by all.
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Holy F$*K! And I left Iowa after college because I thought it was too conservative!
Iowa State and its judicial system enjoins itself with Nina Burleigh’s words in the Huffington Post, which are a sad reflection of the state of human existence and its corrupted mentality. Nevertheless, she is partially right because in a rage Satan’s not simply in the stall beside me, he’s in the halls of Congress, in city, state and federal judiciary, in between each line of pain and gloating found in media and in many churches spouting his evil deception while encouraging the destruction of humankind through homophobe or put specifically homosexuality which is an abomination against the very nature of God and any true humanity knowing that someone somewhere knows the truth about him (Satan). Let’s not look solely at Foley, Haggard and Craig but also Clinton and Obama, political figures, all of whom are as deceitful as he/she can be and yet mass media would support such ridiculous offensive notions perpetuated on a questionable humanity and its civilization Satan obviously intends to use towards the death and destruction of the whole of humankind. Has history taught humanity anything? Solomon, the richest man ever to have walked the face of this earth (Bill Gates in comparison would be considered poor) lost everything, why? Caligula was assassinated for his genocidal tendencies infused with sexual immorality and corrupt government. Believe it or not! Be not deceived God is not mocked whatsoever he/she sow that shall he/she also reap. The book ‘The Decimation of America by its own hand’ clearly depicts the existing state of humankind as it draws ever so near its death and destruction caused not by ignorance but arrogance. It’s time for both Democrats and Republicans, it’s time for humanity as a whole to absolutely reject the gay wing and stop fueling this evil possession that drives men and women like Larry Craig into airport bathroom stalls by refusing to call it what it is, a sick demonic possession, an evil inflicted on humankind. Tell it like it is as oppose to how Satan wants it known because Satan truly is in the stall, the seat, the pew, the office, the cubicle even in the halls of Congress and local government, even the judiciary just waiting for another chance to deceive humankind. Truth, honor and integrity cannot be found otherwise unless one accepts the fact that it is not history that repeats itself but humankind failing to learn and thereby repeating the selfsame atrocities that destroyed countless prior civilizations while believing as America does that it is invincible! Yes, Satan is in the stall next to you and me but Satan is also in a rage reading these words knowing that the truth is ever before his face because his fate has already been sealed and he would love nothing better than to take others with him. Why join him?
If you can’t say something nice, get in the stall next to me.