List of gay marriage states may include...Iowa?!

So the will of the majority should outweigh civil rights?

 

Some Iowans want it. Obviously, not everyone felt the same way about the law.

 

I don't know where you saw backhanded compliments, Lyman.

Iowa is a nice place to live.
Iowa City has generally been proclaimed a great area on this board.

 

I have no beef with Iowa. It's a little dead outside its major towns and cities, and the drive across I-80 can be incredibly boring, but who cares?

 

This suddenly got a lot more interesting.

Judge this morning issued a stay of his decision to allow for an appeal to the state supreme court.

But not before one couple got a license and got married.

http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070831/NEWS/70831018/1001&lead=1

 

The AP wire said it was the County Attorney who asked Hanson for a stay so that the State Supreme Court would review it.

John Sarcone, you are the laziest fucking County Attorney in Polk County history.

Back to the liberal streak, it's more of a progressive streak that Iowa (than a Dem/GOP political angle) has had since Bob Ray was governor (a progressive Republican) to get up to speed with the times. The shift is with the cities and the rural/small towns. The cities are democratic, and a 50/50 spilt in the rural areas except western Iowa who haven't met a Democrat they didn't liked well enough.

Overall, if the ISC (IA Sup. Crt.) upholds Hanson's ruling, the nutcases will be hollering, but the majority of will say "I'm happy or not crazy about it, but I can deal with it."

 

I certainly can't argue with that.

 

You could, but you'd have to get out your Polk County Attorney shotglass set.

Which has never, to my knowledge, been used to serve Bushmill's.

 

Fen, the sumbitch will rather let a grand jury deal with a murder case before he'll touch it. The County Attorneys (the Iowa version of a D.A.) in the rural counties handle more work than he does, and he's in the largest county in the state, population-wise. It's customary for him not to even dip his hands into something like this, including murder cases.

He has no credible reason or case to ask for an injunction. I guess the southside political machine, made up of mostly Italian-Americans, told him to make an ill-advised power play. The guy's a douche in my book. He has done effectively nothing in office.



No, we don't have Bushmill, but we're finally getting some fucking Fat Tire beer. Thank goodness!!!!!

 

That sucks, I thought the stay wasn't going to be issued until later this week.

 

Obviously I take this as a good sign, but before people go pronouncing this as a sign that gays will be allowed to marry everywhere, there are some significant hurdles that need to be cleared. Many states passed constitutional amendments, which require a 2/3 supermajority vote to overturn. So sadly, my home state won't be allowing it any time soon. I am waiting to see some of the DOMA bullshit get challenged nationally, though.

 

a lotta people fear what they don't know, diab ... which, i think they believe, gives them the right to act as though we still live in the dark ages, or the 1950s, anyway.