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STOP calingl it GAY MARRIAGE - It’s Marriage EQUALITY
STOP calling it SAME SEX MARRIAGE - We do NOT call hetero Marriage “Opposite Sex Marriage”
If you don’t like Marriage Equality - then DON’T marry someone of the same sex
NO Religion will be forced to Marry anyone they deem “unworthy”
NO Religion will be Locked up or Fined for speaking out against LGBT people - tho Tony Perkins and the AFA WILL LIE and say otherwise(even tho that’s something Jesus would NEVER do..IF he ever existed)
America - LIVE UP TO YOUR Constant spread of LIES about Personal Freedoms..Either we are ALL Free, or NONE of us are!
When in America has the Public EVER gotten to VOTE on any other Minority Rights? THEY HAVEN’T!
When in America was Religion USED to FIGHT Equality for Blacks,Women etc etc……TOO MANY TIMES to COUNT!!!
It's about $$$, not human rights.
As most of us know there is nothing more threatening to sour-faced puritanical pussyfootery than a stoned 'mo...
"...a setback for social conservatives who wanted to protect traditional families" written with no quotes or sense of irony. then a long series of anti-gay talking points with no rebuttal.
However, this is amazing news! The best part--I have a crush on a guy who lives in Iowa! :)
Protect traditional families? From what?
http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/84568/#
(Click on "Listen")
on the other hand, I suppose it's possible that legislators might try to override this ruling, but would take a while.
Thank You, Iowa!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I didn't know you had it in you!
(In response to everyone below who caught the ridiculous line in article about "protecting traditional families" from gay marriage.)
Most of the rest of Iowa does not really care and will appreciate the increased wedding tourism this will result in (you do not have to be a resident of Iowa to be wed here)
Congratulations to my nextdoor neighbors to the north!
Check'em out. They are good! Especially Mr. Alexander... He deserves a human rights award.
Much applause to you, Iowa!
The courts used to be the final word in this country, but the bigots have learned how to do an "end-run" around the law as witnessed in California and Prop - 8.
At least Iowa is doing it right. The bigots live in a world of dillusion - and that's where they'll stay.
I recall this marriage bill going through the state congress only to have it vetoed by the governor who claimed this was a decision that needed to be decided by the courts, effectively dismissing one branch of the government that was designed to make law. It went through the court system and the ruling was in favor of marriage.
Enter the bigots who have learned that if they do not like a ruling, they can put it up to popular vote and change it. That is what happened. Now the California justices have to decide whether the citizens have the right to do that. It is not looking good at all regardless of the rights of gays and lesbians that have been trampled upon, it looks like the ruling is going to be "majority wins all arguments, including the right to deny rights to minority groups. This will also play out in Iowa, in my opinion. ( right or wrong ) I think it is wrong to discriminate against minorities and I thought our country was set up so the little guy would have rights and his day in court to protect his rights from being decided by a mob majority. We shall see, but it doesn't look very good. The justices were mesmerized by Ken Starr and that was not a good sign.
Morons.
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This news from Iowa is heart-lifting for all citizens, but for this straight who last night watched Milk it is especially meaningful.
Can't remember the last time I thought to myself that I was proud of Iowa. This changes everything in my mind.
Way to lead Iowa! God loves ya and you know we do!
MN and WI come on bring the entire Midwest into THIS Century
With the added benefit of making Christian Values Republican heads pop in their brain-cases like a good ol' fashioned mid-west - Yodel.
Well done Iowa.
Meanwhile.....my husband and I await the CA Supreme Court decision whether the voters can legally force us to divorce.
"...I think it’s significant because Iowa is considered a Midwest state in the mainstream of American thought," Socarides said. "Unlike states on the coasts, there’s nothing more American than Iowa. As they say during the presidential caucuses, 'As Iowa goes, so goes the nation.’"
Wasn't Iowa the one that truly started the path to Obama's victory during their caucus? He won a surprising victory in a nearly all-white state. Iowa also outlawed slavery nearly 20 years before the Dred Scott decision. They have a history of being progressive.
Makes me think of the NERDS !!
I don't believe any man is gay who is happily married to, and having a fulfilling relationship and sex life with, a woman. I suspect they're basically bisexual (or gay and not admitting it, and thus not happy underneath). As for you, good for you, if you're bi. But no one ever said bisexuals can't be happy with the opposite sex - that's the definition of bisexuality. Attendees at that conference, however, have nothing to do with the point you're making. I believe they are people who are very distressed by the fact that they're gay, have a psychological issue with being gay, and it's a very sad thing. But it has nothing to with bisexuality, well, other than the fact that those who claim to "cured" (which in fact, the "ex-gay" groups don't actually claim to be able to do) were, I believe, simply bisexual, or perhaps 60-40 on the Kinsey scale and living their life a 40.
The fact that you find someone else's civil rights victory a negative, and somehow all about you, is just very sad for what it says about you. You're a guy who like girls, great. Most "gay" people don't - and certainly not as much as they like guys. So stop pretending you somehow represent the majority of gay people when, I believe, you represent the majority of bisexuals. And even then...
Either I am a gay man in love with a woman, or Love Won Out was able to "cure" me of being gay. I have made no claim either way, nor have I tried to present myself as representing any type of majority. Indeed, I feel much like a minority. I know a lot of the men who attend the conference who are happily married to their wives. Marital bliss does not center around sex. Let us be!
My complaint with Iowa's decision was not that it gave same-sex couples the right to marry, but that it puts us in the closet. It feeds the ignorance and bigotry from people like you who think people like us are really not happy underneath. I have lots of other friends in similar situations. Many are afraid to come out, because people will say they aren't being true to themselves. Many can't even tell their wives for fear that they will leave them. I even have friends whose wives left them when they found out they were gay. Like I said, I wish they could have just said that anyone should be able to marry anyone they chose rather than saying I am incapable of loving my wife.
I agree with GBC just below. Take your meds...and take a hike.
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Damn Conservatives.
Ironic that it's their blessed General Conference this weekend.
I also live in Utah... and its currently snowing on their "Mormon Parade."
Way to go, Iowa!