Posted on 04/03/2009 7:10:08 AM PDT by Zakeet
The Iowa Supreme Court says the state's same-sex marriage ban violates the constitutional rights of gay and lesbian couples, making it the third state where gay marriage is legal.
In a unanimous ruling issued Friday, the court upheld a 2007 Polk County District Court judge's ruling that the law was unconstitutional.
The case stems from a 2005 lawsuit filed by Lambda Legal, a New York-based gay rights organization. The group filed a lawsuit on behalf of six gay and lesbian Iowa couples who were denied marriage licenses.
The suit named then-Polk County recorder and registrar Timothy Brien.
The Polk County attorney's office claimed that Hanson's ruling violated the separation of powers and the issue should be left to the Legislature.
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“Was this based on the state or federal constitution?”
In theory this can’t be based on the Federal Constitution since marriage is strictly a state issue. Marriage is not mentioned in the Constitution. On the other hand, far be it from leftwing judges to find rights in the Constitution that don’t exist.
Ironically, the right to license is the right to deny. If a license can be had by anyone who wants it, then there is no purpose to a license. I bet you can’t get a plumbers license in Iowa unless you are a plumber. Isn’t that discrimination against non-plumbers who want to lay pipe?
A number of SCOTUS rulings have recognized marriage as a "fundamental right"
Loving v. Virginia (unanimous)
Zablocki v. Redhail (8-1)
Turner v. Safley (the concur/dissent was split by different sections of the ruling)
That does not make sense.
An amendment to a Constitution CANNOT be Constitutional until it is ratified, in this case, by the voters..
If we amend the US Constitution to allow slavery, it cannot be ruled “unconstitutional.”
Amendments change things - now it may have ruled that the method of garnering those votes or the method of placing the issue before the voters was unconstitutional, but not the ratified will of the voters.
Of course he isn’t, why have facts and figures when you can just make crap up!
When I lived close to the Iowa boarder in Illinois, we had an acronym for people from Iowa, Idiots Out Wondering Around.
Gay and Lesbian is a state of mind, not a gender.
Bisexual people are discriminated against too because they can't have a spouse of "each" gender.
Our Supreme Courts are not elected. You’ve got trouble in Rivr City with a capital T and that rhymes with G and that stands for gay marriage.
>>To make matters worse, the Dems control the state
>>legislature and will likely block any vote on a
>>constitutional amendment.
Hmmm....if they voted the DemocRats in, then maybe Iowa deserves this.
I keep saying it - we get what we vote for.
This is actually going to be easy to reverse. Just like in California, it will be easy to get a huge majority of voters to agree to change the State Constitution to ban homosexual ‘marriage’. This won’t even last a month.
Press release: Iowa Supreme Court Rules in Marriage Case
Iowa Supreme Court | 04/03/2009 | Iowa Supreme Court
Posted on 04/03/2009 8:01:29 AM PDT by iowamark
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2221548/posts
Third. Don't forget Connecticut.
Don't count on it - the state is run by liberal dems, and getting more liberal. They won't buck their party's platform. I'm not sure what Iowa's law is regarding citizen initiatives.
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Kind of a perfect storm here in Iowa.
Population getting older. Votes medicare plain and simple.
Population contains farmers. Votes for subsidization.
Larger cities in East are full of minorities and union members.
I don’t think the old folk like the marriage issue. But they made their bed.
Time to amend Iowa’s constitution.
Not to worry. Steve King said that there are no gay marriages in Iowa, and he’s one of their representatives.”Unicorns, leprechauns, gay marriages in Iowa — these are all things you will never find because they just don’t exist.”
So don’t expect gay people to be beating down the doors at City Hall anytime soon.
People have vote liberal for so long that there are consequences. Even when they voted for Reagan, they mostly stuck with liberals in Congress, even “Republican” ones like Robert Stafford and Arlen Specter.
People have vote liberal for so long that there are consequences. Even when they voted for Reagan, they mostly stuck with liberals in Congress, even “Republican” ones like Robert Stafford and Arlen Specter.
They have one good politician from IA — Steve King; the rest are practically useless.
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