this changes nothing guys; it was a pointless, stupid thing to do. If you want “gay” “marriage” banned in Iowa this was not the way to go.
1) the court case that decided same-sex marriage was voted for 7-0 on the Iowa S. Court. basic math tells you that there still is majority on the court that believes there is a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. It doesn’t matter who is put in the slots, 4 remains greater then 3.
2) there is barely any hint of a plausible legal path way for the issue of “should Iowa issue marriage licenses to homosexuals?” to be, again, reviewed by the court; Some agency or private party would have to show it has standing for that question for it to be reviewed; I can’t think of how this could possibly be the case. Cases of, say, church groups be forced to preform weddings for homosexuals would not bring up this issues. the question in that case is “can church groups be forced by the state to preform homosexual “marriages?” This doesn’s get at nor brings up the underlying question that needs to be overturned
So right now we have no clear way to get a “homosexual” marriage overturned at the case level, and even if it did it still in all likelihood go down anyway with the S. Court.
3) as the article says the out going governor gets to select the new justices, so likely “yes” votes replace the out going yes votes.
nothing was accomplished by this. meanwhile the amendment process has hit a huge road block in the senate majority leader (a democrat) who, on Wednesday no less, stated that he will not allow a homosexual “marriage” ban to come to the senate floor as long as he is senate majority leader. This will be for at least 2 more years as republican will not take the senate, at best they will split the state senate 25-25. I really don’t see how any more pressure can be brought to bare on this guy.
NOM, and the other groups, spent a ton of money to ouster the judges...and it did nothing. and it might have turned off people given the viciousness, and shear pointlessness of the action.
this gets a big o’ whoop from me.