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Gay Marriage in Iowa? Yep! - DesMoinesRegister.com
by Mike the Usurper at 1:09 pm EDT, Aug 31, 2007

A Polk County judge on Thursday struck down Iowa's law banning gay marriage.
The ruling by Judge Robert Hanson concluded that the state's prohibition on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and he ordered the Polk County recorder to issue marriage licenses to six gay couples.

That's ain't them damn liberals in Massachewsetts doin' this. It's pig raisin' country!

Update Having now read the opinion, the following line really stands out.

"So far as this court can tell, (symbol thingy I don't have a key for)595.2(1) operates only to harm same-sex couples and their children."

(underline in the original p.55)

That sounds pretty damning to me...

Update 2 The order has been stayed pending appeal.

RE: Gay Marriage in Iowa? Yep! - DesMoinesRegister.com
by Dagmar at 2:20 am EDT, Sep 2, 2007

Mike the Usurper wrote:
A Polk County judge on Thursday struck down Iowa's law banning gay marriage.
The ruling by Judge Robert Hanson concluded that the state's prohibition on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and he ordered the Polk County recorder to issue marriage licenses to six gay couples.

Call me crazy, but I kinda doubt the framers of their state's constitution thought to worry about whether or not there were homosexuals at all, let alone write up passages that would make their marriage counter to the constitution.