Gay? Come to Iowa!

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Iowa, declared to be the "land of the sodomite damned"...

Now it's official.

Today our state supreme court overturned the ban on gay marriage.

It's good to be damned.
 
thesyntaxera said:
Iowa, declared to be the "land of the sodomite damned"...

Now it's official.

Today our state supreme court overturned the ban on gay marriage.

It's good to be damned.
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Yay Iowa!

How many times do you get to say that?
 
tyr_13 said:
Yay Iowa!

How many times do you get to say that?
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Several. Iowa has a long history of putting civil rights first.

http://articles.latimes.com/2007/dec/30/nation/na-iowa30

Iowa public schools were desegregated nearly a century ahead of 1954's Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka. The state was the first to admit a woman to the bar, in 1869 -- three years before the Supreme Court ruled that states could deny women the right to practice law. Iowa City, with its renowned writing program, became a nuclear-free zone even before Berkeley. And there is no death penalty in the state.
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I was hoping it would be my state first, as part of my plan to make the Falls the marriage capital of the world again.
 
The locals are sure in a tizzy. There's a rally AND a protest here at the courthouse tonight. That ought to be interesting.
 
Starthinker said:
The locals are sure in a tizzy. There's a rally AND a protest here at the courthouse tonight. That ought to be interesting.
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Not here in Iowa City. I think there is going to be an impromptu parade or something.

I would just like to personally welcome our new gay overlords.
 
My recent relocation from Soddom (LV) to Indianapolis seems almost prophetic. Much shorter trip to get wedding/honeymoon if I so desire.

Now, all I need to do is find some nice muscular, midwestern, farmboy who would want to marry a short fat Jew.

Ok, maybe still some kinks in my master plan, but I'm working on it.
 
Iowa public schools were desegregated nearly a century ahead of 1954's Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka. The state was the first to admit a woman to the bar, in 1869 -- three years before the Supreme Court ruled that states could deny women the right to practice law. Iowa City, with its renowned writing program, became a nuclear-free zone even before Berkeley. And there is no death penalty in the state.
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Well, 3 out of 4 isn't at all bad.
 
Heh, my friend who went to Iowa for a year for college said that she was the only Democrat in her politics class :p .

Hurray :yahoo !

But I won't be moving there any time soon.
 
At the risk of repeating myself, I'm going to repeat what I wrote in the other thread:

Don't you fools understand that if gay marriage is legal in Iowa, thousands of farmers will catch teh ghey??? Then they'll try to milk bulls and will get killed!!! Won't somebody think of the farmers???
 
Oh, I can just hear the "activist judges" nonsense starting...

If the legislature actually had the stones to man (and woman) up on this issue and do the right thing, the constitutionally correct thing, then the courts wouldn't have to decide on this type of stuff. This is the politicians way of staying out of it to protect their own rears. Cowards.
 
shemp said:
At the risk of repeating myself, I'm going to repeat what I wrote in the other thread:

Don't you fools understand that if gay marriage is legal in Iowa, thousands of farmers will catch teh ghey??? Then they'll try to milk bulls and will get killed!!! Won't somebody think of the farmers???
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see my post above. I am most defenitely thinking about the farmers. Actually printing what I am thinking about them would violate several rules of the MA so I will refrain.
 
Not to be a wet blanket or anything, but while the judges in Iowa may rock, the average joe is against all that monkeying around, as determined by their voting. 'cept maybe around Iowa City, since it isn't floating this year. Yet.:D
 
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shadron said:
Not to be a wet blanket or anything, but while the judges in Iowa may rock, the average joe is against all that monkeying around, as determined by their voting. 'cept maybe around Iowa City, since it isn't floating this year. Yet. :P
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However, it's very difficult to amend Iowa's constitution (which is what it would take to change it). And by the time they get around to it there'll have been nearly 4 years of teh ghey marriage in the state. It'll be harder for the screaming right to make their case about how we've destroyed everything.
 
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