Push to ban gay marriage flagging in Iowa

DES MOINES, Iowa – Ever since gay couples began flocking to Iowa to marry three years ago, conservative Republicans have been looking forward to amassing enough political power to put an end to it. But now that the opportunity is finally approaching, their goal may be slipping out of reach.

Conservative lawmakers are watching public opinion move away from them on the gay marriage issue, and now fear that voters might not approve a ban even if the GOP can put one on the ballot by winning control of the Legislature in the November elections.

The shifting views come as a bitter disappointment for the state's prominent Christian conservative community which has long bridled at Iowa's status as a gay rights haven in the heartland — the only place outside the Northeast where gays can marry.

"People are getting comfortable with it and that's a shame to tell you the truth," said Susan Geddes, an Iowa Republican and social conservative organizer who worked for Mike Huckabee's 2008 presidential campaign in the state.

Even Republicans seem to be more accepting, said Julie Summa marketing director for The Family Leader, a social conservative advocacy group. She and other evangelical leaders attribute the change to libertarian Republicans, like supporters Texas Rep. Ron Paul, who oppose restrictions on personal freedoms.

IL Att. Gen. is not going to defend the constitution which says marriage is between man and woman in a lawsuit that is pending. It was announced that a couple of attorneys have ask permission to defend & they will be allowed to do so. Now tell me why we even have Lisa Madigan on the payroll?

Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez and Attorney General Lisa Madigan refused to defend it.

http://effinghamdailynews.com/local/x1501699827/Effingham-County-clerk-gets-OK-to-defend-gay-marriage-ban

Conservative lawmakers are watching public opinion move away from them on the gay marriage issue

What does public opinion matter? It has never mattered to the sodomy-promoters. What's wrong (and disgusting and improbable) is wrong. This is a matter of self-defense for us as a society and as individuals with children and grandchildren. Banish it and destroy those who try to spread it—whatever way works.

"forcing the courts and society as a whole to recognize your sodomy based relationship and give you particular rights due to it is not a “personal freedom.” "

Unfortunately Libertarians do not view it this way, and would legalize drugs and many vices.

Regardless of how you feel about these issues one way or the other, the push for forced acceptance of homosexuality and the legalization of drugs are two entirely separate things, in two entirely different categories, and should not be mixed together.

For example, no one is trying to outlaw homosexual acts - not even the most socially conservative far "right wing" religious people are doing that. They are merely trying to resist the forced acceptance of those acts by the government. Everyone should understand by now that the push for gay marriage is not for "equality", but so that no business and no organization, including churches, can legally disapprove of homosexual behavior. Everyone, by law, will be forced to accept it as "normal".

With drugs, however, it is the very act of personal use of drugs that people want to be kept illegal, so that a guy sitting in his own house still can't legally fire up a joint before he goes to bed. That is an attempt to outlaw a specific behavior.

It may seem like a trifling difference between the two, but it is actually a fundamental difference which says what role we believe is appropriate for government. In the first case, it is the government trying to force a behavior (acceptance of homosexuality), and in the second, it is government trying to forbid a behavior (illegal drug use).

The distinction is also important because pro-gay people like to deliberately confuse the gay marriage issue by saying that "people should be allowed to love whomever they want" when, in reality, people have been able to love whomever they want since the dawn of time, and even homos can love who they want even without gay marriage, but the pro-gay people want to sucker others into thinking that if gay marriage isn't legalized, homos will be thrown in jail for having gay sex, or looking at each other longingly across a table.

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