>>>So, why can’t Iowa solve this problem?<<<
An ounce of prevention might actually be worth a pound of cure, you know.
Or you like the idea of giving the US Senate one crack at passing a marriage amendment after a runaway activist judge has declared gay (or whatever type have you) marriage legal.
Because I’ll just tell you, that’s all we’ll get. Once it’s legal, there’s no going back. And the country will pay a heavy price for destroying what has been implied in traditional marriage in every society on earth for as long as man has kept history.
And you ask why Iowa can’t solve this problem. Well, all that takes is a brief look at the way government works. Because one ruling by the US Supreme Court that bans of non-traditional marriages are unconstitutional is all it will take to destroy Iowa’s marriage amendment. Further, marriage is something has is granted federal rights and benefits. It should be protected at the federal level.
Or an amendment to ban children eating at McDonald's?
You want more Federal government intrusion, I want less. If I must be regulated and legislated and controlled and protected, and, and, and, I’d rather it was by my State, and NOT by a group of people who have no idea of my culture, community, or traditions.
I would have a choice, then, to accept it, or to move to a different State. The Federal option leaves us no choice and no recourse.