DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Three Iowa Supreme Court jtic who helped legalize gay marriage the state seven years ago will face voters on Nov. 8 for the first time sce the lg, but they are refg to mpaign for their jobs bee they argue the urts should rema above polics. The jtic up for retentn vot next week's electn are takg the same approach as three judg who appeared to pay a price for their stands when voters 2010 removed them om office after a stly mpaign waged by gay marriage opponents. The judg now on the ballot have said ltle about the vote, but two of those removed om the urt told The Associated Prs they don't regret their choice not to mpaign even though they knew opponents were anizg a high-profile effort to ot them. "I thk 's dangero when polics are jected to the urts and I thk that is what happened 2010," former Chief Jtice Marsha Tern said. "If voters vote on judg or jtic based on their views of issu rather than what the law requir, what they're tellg judg to do is to ignore the law when popular opn wants them to do so. Then, we're not a untry based on the le of law and that's a dangero path to go down." Tern, along wh jtic Michael Stre and David Baker, failed to receive the majory vote need to rema office for another eight years. Each of them received ls than 45 percent, markg the first time Supreme Court jtic were removed om office by voters sce the retentn system was tablished 1962. The three jtic 2009 had joed a unanimo 7-0 lg that found a ban on same-sex marriage vlated the state nstutn, makg Iowa the third state to legalize the practice. At the time, 29 stat had nstutnal bans on gay marriage and the issue remaed highly ntent throughout the untry. Like Tern, Baker said he didn't regret not mpaigng. "If you're gog to do that you have to go out and solic funds and, whether you do or you don't, the perceptn is that you owe somebody," Baker said. "I'm still of the belief that polics and judg are a bad mix." Gay rights opponents led by Christian nservative Bob Vanr Plaats raised $1 ln their succsful mpaign agast the jtic 2010. Gay rights opponents led aga by Vanr Plaats failed to remove Jtice David Wiggs when he was up for a vote 2012. Wiggs, who joed the gay marriage cisn, received more than 54 percent of the vote and remas on the bench. In the upg electn, Chief Jtice Mark Cady and Jtic Daryl Hecht and Brent Appel will be on the ballot. None has mpaigned, but Cady released a letter last week that stated, "I believe mpaigns for judicial office only open the door of a urt system to the fluence of polics and money. This door mt never swg open." There hasn't been a high-profile effort to remove jtic this year. That's likely part due to the U.S. Supreme Court lg last year affirmg that state bans on same-sex marriage are unnstutnal, a cisn that seemed to vdite the Iowa lg. "I thk obvly the natn has bee more fortable wh the ncept," Baker said. "It certaly has been ma clear om a nstutnal basis ours is the rrect cisn." Vanr Plaats cled to ment through a spokman, but he wrote an Oct. 21 lumn The D Mo Register that enuraged Iowans to vote "no" on the jtic whose opn he said served to "foist homosexual marriage upon our state." His anizatn's polil actn mtee has donated money to a group lled Common Sense PAC, which has placed yard signs around the state askg voters to reject the three jtic. D Mo attorney Guy Cook, the past print of the Iowa State Bar Associatn and an advote of judicial pennce, has worked wh a bar associatn mtee sce 2012 on behalf of judg who feel they n't mpaign. The goal is to te voters on why Iowans amend the state nstutn s ago to create a new system for hirg judg. "It was signed to get higher qualy judg on the bench based on mer and to remove the fluence of polics and not have judg issue lgs return for vot," he said.
Contents:
- IOWA JTIC WHO CID GAY MARRIAGE FACE RETENTN VOTE
- IOWA GAY MARRIAGE LG A TURNG POT FOR JTIC
- IOWA JTICE WHO RULED FOR GAY MARRIAGE FAC TT THAT PEERS FAILED
- IOWA SUPREME COURT LEGALIZ GAY MARRIAGE
- GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
- WHAT EACH SUPREME COURT JTICE HAS SAID ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
- IOWA VOTERS SPL ON REMOVG STATE JTIC FOR GAY MARRIAGE RULG
IOWA JTIC WHO CID GAY MARRIAGE FACE RETENTN VOTE
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Three Iowa Supreme Court jtic who helped legalize gay marriage the state seven years ago will face voters on Nov.
8 for the first time sce the lg, but they are refg to mpaign for their jobs bee they argue the urts should rema above jtic up for retentn vot next week’s electn are takg the same approach as three judg who appeared to pay a price for their stands when voters 2010 removed them om office after a stly mpaign waged by gay marriage judg now on the ballot have said ltle about the vote, but two of those removed om the urt told The Associated Prs they don’t regret their choice not to mpaign even though they knew opponents were anizg a high-profile effort to ot them. At the time, 29 stat had nstutnal bans on gay marriage and the issue remaed highly ntent throughout the Tern, Baker said he didn’t regret not mpaigng.
Gay rights opponents led by Christian nservative Bob Vanr Plaats raised $1 ln their succsful mpaign agast the jtic rights opponents led aga by Vanr Plaats failed to remove Jtice David Wiggs when he was up for a vote 2012. Wiggs, who joed the gay marriage cisn, received more than 54 percent of the vote and remas on the the upg electn, Chief Jtice Mark Cady and Jtic Daryl Hecht and Brent Appel will be on the ballot.
IOWA GAY MARRIAGE LG A TURNG POT FOR JTIC
All three Iowa supreme urt jtic who led favor of legalizg marriage equaly for gay and lbian upl have been voted out of office. Groups cludg the Natnal Organizatn for Marriage, the Fay Rearch Council, and the Amerin Fay Associatn lnched a succsful $1 ln mpaign agast the jtic. * which iowa supreme court justices voted for gay marriage *
21 lumn The D Mo Register that enuraged Iowans to vote “no” on the jtic whose opn he said served to “foist homosexual marriage upon our state. Gay, lbian and transgenr activists react to the Iowa Supreme Court's cisn April 2009 to make same-sex marriage legal.
The jtic up for retentn vot next week’s electn are takg the same approach as three judg who appeared to pay a price for their stands when voters 2010 removed them om office after a stly mpaign waged by gay marriage opponents. At the time, 29 stat had nstutnal bans on gay marriage and the issue remaed highly ntent throughout the untry. Gay rights opponents led by Christian nservative Bob Vanr Plaats raised $1 ln their succsful mpaign agast the jtic 2010.
Gay rights opponents led aga by Vanr Plaats failed to remove Jtice David Wiggs when he was up for a vote 2012.
IOWA JTICE WHO RULED FOR GAY MARRIAGE FAC TT THAT PEERS FAILED
Wiggs, who joed the gay marriage cisn, received more than 54 percent of the vote and remas on the bench. All three Iowa supreme urt jtic who led favor of legalizg marriage equaly for gay and lbian upl have been voted out of office.
Groups cludg the Natnal Organizatn for Marriage, the Fay Rearch Council, and the Amerin Fay Associatn lnched a succsful $1 ln mpaign agast the three Iowa supreme urt jtic who led favor of legalizg marriage equaly for gay and lbian upl have been voted out of cludg the Natnal Organizatn for Marriage, the Fay Rearch Council, and the Amerin Fay Associatn lnched a succsful $1 ln mpaign agast the mpaign was led by Bob Vanr Plaats of Iowa for Freedom. ”The most staed effort to ot judg this electn cycle was Iowa, where out-of-state anizatns opposed to gay marriage, cludg the Natnal Organizatn for Marriage and the Amerin Fay Associatn, poured money to the removal mpaign.
IOWA SUPREME COURT LEGALIZ GAY MARRIAGE
”The feat was a bter disappotment to much of the legal muny here, which rallied behd the jtic, and was viewed wh particular ncern the gay muny, which has found state urts more sympathetic than state legislatur. “A lot of time we start the urts bee they’re there to protect the mory agast the tyranny of the majory, ” said Carolyn Jenisen, executive director of One Iowa, an anizatn supportg gay rights, “Bee they’re there to make tough cisns whout regard to popular opn.
DES MOINES, Iowa -- The unanimo Iowa Supreme Court lg that legalized same-sex marriage five years ago Thursday had a profound effect on the ongog movement for equaly for gays and lbians and on three of the jtic who cid the se — and lost their jobs bee of Chief Jtice Marsha Tern and Jtic Michael Stre and David Baker faced a retentn electn November 2010, they met a backlash-fueled mpaign, fund part by out-of-state tert groups.
Decisn: April 3, 2009CarlosBall, law profsor, Rutgers School of Law: The prev lgs by state supreme urts that sid wh gay platiffs were highly actured.... '"Ball: Those who have fend same-sex marriage bans urts throughout the untry sce Varnum have had a very difficult time persuadg judg that the ernment has a legimate reason for nyg gay men and lbians the opportuny to marry the dividuals of their the lgMark Cady, wrer of the cisn, current chief jtice: In many ways, the public disurse followg any urt cisn on such a major nstutnal qutn of civil rights is what was expected, if not mand, by our nstutn.
GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
Fanced largely by out-of-state groups opposed to gay marriage, those who sought the judg’ oter have sent a natnal msage about the power of the people, a Republin lear of the mpaign, Bob Vanr Plaats, told a crowd of jubilant supporters at a party last night. One Iowa, the state’s leadg gay rights anizatn, has been promotg s belief that same-sex marriage has benefed fai and the enomy.
” A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 14 of the New York edn wh the headle: Iowa Jtice Who Ruled for Gay Marriage Fac Tt That Three Peers Failed. On April 3, 2009, the Iowa Supreme Court led unanimoly to overturn the state's ban on gay marriage (strikg the language om Iowa Co sectn 595.
WHAT EACH SUPREME COURT JTICE HAS SAID ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
The Iowa Supreme Court legalized gay marriage Friday a unanimo and emphatic cisn that mak Iowa the third state — and first the natn's heartland — to allow same-sex upl to wed. "We are firmly nvced the excln of gay and lbian people om the stutn of civil marriage do not substantially further any important ernmental objective, " the Supreme Court wrote. "'It's a big w'The Iowa attorney general's office said gay and lbian upl n seek marriage licens startg April 24, once the lg is nsired fal.
" D Mo attorney Dennis Johnson, who argued on behalf of gay and lbian upl, said "this is a great day for civil rights Iowa.
IOWA VOTERS SPL ON REMOVG STATE JTIC FOR GAY MARRIAGE RULG
Separatn of powersThe se had been workg s way through the urts sce 2005, when Lambda Legal, a New York-based gay rights anizatn, filed a lawsu on behalf of six gay and lbian upl Iowa. John Logan, a soclogy profsor at Brown Universy, said Iowa's stat as a largely ral, Midwt state uld enforce an argument that gay marriage is no longer a ge issue.
"But as extends to stat like Iowa, and as attus toward gay marriage have evintly changed, then people will look at as an example of broad acceptance, " Logan said.