Nearly eight years after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage and several months after Congrs dified gay nuptials, Iowa legislators proposed banng such unns their state nstutn.
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- IOWA SUPREME COURT LEGALIZ GAY MARRIAGE
- IOWA SEN. JONI ERNST FENDS GAY-MARRIAGE VOTE AS GOP UNTY GROUPS MOVE TO CENSURE HER
IOWA SUPREME COURT LEGALIZ GAY MARRIAGE
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Nearly eight years after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage and several months after Congrs dified gay nuptials, Iowa legislators proposed banng such unns their state nstutn.
Joni Ernst fends gay-marriage vote as GOP unty groups move to censure herHoe File 508, which is also sponsored by eight Republins, would say that Iowa regniz marriage as "a sacred relig sacrament" and no Iowan shall be pelled to regnize any same-sex marriage as would state that Iowa nsirs portns of the feral Rpect for Marriage Act to be null and void for vlatg the First Amendment's relig protectns and the Tenth Amendment by encroachg on the state's powers. Months after Congrs affirmed gay marriage wh the historic Rpect for Marriage Act, a group of eight Iowa Republins are lookg to go the oppose directn, troducg a bill that would regnize marriage as "the solemnized unn between one human blogil male and one human blogil female. ”The bill would effectively undo the 2009 Iowa Supreme Court lg that ma Iowa the 3rd state the untry to legalize gay adopted by the Iowa Hoe, Senate, and Governor, the rolutn would have to be passed the next general assembly 2025 or 2026, before then beg sent to the electorate for ratifitn.
Their proposal more than two months after Congrs ratified gay marriag and almost eight years after the U. It would also have to be passed another legislative ssn and then by Wednday, hundreds of stunts across Iowa left their classrooms to participate a 'We Say Gay' walkout to prott the recent slate of bills they say discrimate agast the rights of LGBTQ youth.
IOWA SEN. JONI ERNST FENDS GAY-MARRIAGE VOTE AS GOP UNTY GROUPS MOVE TO CENSURE HER
To legalize gay marriage after the Iowa Supreme Court unanimoly overturned a ban 2009. 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. For six months last year, California's high urt allowed gay marriage before voters banned November.
"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. 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.