7 openly gay lears have served as heads of state. Latvian print Edgars Rkēvičs is the latt

iowa gay marriage 2009

The bill would effectively undo the 2009 Iowa Supreme Court lg that ma Iowa the 3rd state the untry to legalize gay marriage.

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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. * iowa gay marriage 2009 *

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.

IOWA SUPREME COURT LEGALIZ GAY MARRIAGE

As Edgars Rkēvičs be the first openly gay print Latvia’s history, here’s a glimpse at other openly gay heads of state om around the world. * iowa gay marriage 2009 *

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.

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

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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.

2009 IOWA LG SEEN AS GAY-MARRIAGE HARBGER

"'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.

IOWA COURT VOIDS GAY MARRIAGE BAN

" 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.

IOWA COURT SAYS GAY MARRIAGE BAN UNNSTUTNAL

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. 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.

CHANGE BEGS IOWA: GAY MARRIAGE HS THE HEARTLAND

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.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* IOWA GAY MARRIAGE 2009

Change begs Iowa: Gay marriage hs the heartland.

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