Change begs Iowa: Gay marriage hs the heartland

Contents:

• ON THIS DAY 10 YEARS AGO, AN IOWA SUPREME COURT LG LEGALIZED GAY MARRIAGE THE STATE
• IOWA SUPREME COURT LEGALIZ GAY MARRIAGE
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• 2009 IOWA LG SEEN AS GAY-MARRIAGE HARBGER
• IOWA COURT VOIDS GAY MARRIAGE BAN
• IOWA COURT SAYS GAY MARRIAGE BAN UNNSTUTNAL
• CHANGE BEGS IOWA: GAY MARRIAGE HS THE HEARTLAND

ON THIS DAY 10 YEARS AGO, AN IOWA SUPREME COURT LG LEGALIZED GAY MARRIAGE THE STATE

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. The Iowa Supreme Court on April 3, 2009, unanimoly overturned a 10-year-old outright ban on gay marriage the state and allowed same-sex upl to marry.

Brien ma Iowa the third state the natn to tablish marriage lg tapulted the state to a growg nversatn around marriage equaly and rights for LGBTQ people that would not see a feral rolutn until the Supreme Court stck down gay marriage bans across the natn 2015.

Iowans' llective views on legalizg gay marriage have steadily changed over the years, wh 46% of Iowa Poll rponnts ambivalent on the issue 1996 to 62% rpondg that marriage should only be between same-sex upl Febary 2014, 34% of rponnts to the Iowa Poll claimed to be disappoted that Iowa allowed same-sex marriage while 28% were proud of the cisn and 36% said didn't matter much to them. 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.

IOWA SUPREME COURT LEGALIZ GAY MARRIAGE

For six months last year, California's high urt allowed gay marriage before voters banned November.

LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

"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.

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.

2009 IOWA LG SEEN AS GAY-MARRIAGE HARBGER

"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.

IOWA COURT VOIDS GAY MARRIAGE BAN

Gay-marriage opponents have no other legal optns to appeal the se to the state or feral level bee they were not parti to the lawsu, and there is no feral issue raised the se, Sarne said. Senate Majory Lear Mike Gronstal, a Democrat, said state lawmakers were unlikely to nsir gay marriage legislatn this legislative ssn, which is expected to end wh weeks.

Latvia swore the first openly gay print of a Baltic natn Rkēvičs, who sce 2011 was the untry’s foreign mister, was elected by Parliament May after Print Egils Levs did not seek re-electn.

”Rkēvičs “proudly” announced he is gay on Twter November 2014, though the untry, a former Soviet republic, is not pecially LGBTQ-clive. ” He said he knew there would be “mega hysteria, ” but he end wh the hashtag “#Proudtobegay. ”He is one of jt a few openly gay heads of state the world.

IOWA COURT SAYS GAY MARRIAGE BAN UNNSTUTNAL

She is thought to be the first openly gay prime mister the was an active unnist her nearly 10 years workg as a flight attendant, acrdg to the Council of Women World Lears, a work of female heads of state. After the accatn, he said, he was chased down the street by reporters, one of whom yelled, “Yet they say you’re a homosexual! ”Xavier Bettel Prime Mister of Luxembourg (2013-prent)Luxembourg Prime Mister Xavier Bettel at a news nference Belgra, Serbia, on July Vojovic / APBettel was first elected prime mister of Luxembourg 2013, and 2018 he beme the first openly gay prime mister the world to be re-elected for a send marriage beme legal Luxembourg 2015, and the same year Bettel beme the first servg European Unn lear to marry a same-sex partner, the BBC recently cricized a Hungarian law that bans school tnal materials and TV shows for people unr 18 that are emed to promote LGBTQ ntent, Rters reported.

“To be natnally blamed, to be nsired as not normal, to be nsired as a danger for young people — ’s not realizg that beg gay is not a choice, ” Bettel said, acrdg to Rters. Gay, lbian and bisexual people n serve the ary, but transgenr people nnot.

CHANGE BEGS IOWA: GAY MARRIAGE HS THE HEARTLAND

“Hopefully this will blow over three or four days, and then I won’t be known as the gay mister, ” she told The Associated Prs at the Varadkar Prime Mister of Ireland (2017-20, 2022-prent)Irish Prime Mister Leo Varadkar Bssels on June 30. Ludovic Mar / AFP - Getty Imag fileVaradkar beme Ireland’s first openly gay Taoiseach, or prime mister, 2017 and served until 2020. "Five years later, Varnum is nsired a signifint step toward equaly for Iowa's lbian and gay cizens.

"In terms of the fallout om (California's) Proposn 8, the fact that we rebound to this surprisg and meangful victory out of the heartland, that renewed the momentum that we ntue to see today, " said Evan Woflson, executive director of Freedom to the lg's effects around the untry the past five years:-- It gave gays and lbians other stat a place where they uld go to legimize their relatnships, even if meant nothg unr the law back home. -- The cisn reflected a growg shift attu toward gay marriage natnwi and ntributed toward s momentum.