Hear This!
“The Iowa Supreme Court says it will hear arguments in a case challenging the state’s law banning gay marriage. The court on Friday announced it will hear oral arguments in the case on Dec. 9. Both sides will be given 30 minutes to present their arguments.” [Chicago Tribune]
Iowa becoming the third state to recognise gay marriage is a nice thought :)
Who would have thunk Iowa would be the next state to tackle same sex marriage?
GO HAWKEYES
The lower court declared the opposite-sexes-only marriage statute unconstitutional. The state appeal is to overturn that ruling, to prevent same-sex couples from getting married. We win only if the lower-court ruling is upheld. They could have upheld it by just refusing the appeal.
Of course, if they uphold the lower ruling, it will have binding effect statewide. Or they could overturn it, and have binding effect statewide.
does anyone know what happened to the conn. ruling? i think it was supposed to be released this summer, but i haven’t heard word either way on it.
might have to move back to iowa
Chrissy Gephardt must be lovin’ her state today
Hello my name is Merle Dean Shamblin and I would like to be your new friend. I sure could use somebody to chat with. I am a 46 year old long haul truck driver who currently lives in Duncan Oklahoma. Dec 8th 1960 I was born in Fairview Oklahoma. Moved to Caddo and Washita counties where I attended school at Colony Hydro and Weatherford. My parents Malvin and Wanda Shamblin were cotton and peanut farmers. Dad died in 99 from lung cancer. Graduated from SWOSU with a business degree. My two sisters are LaDonna Hubert and Malva Burrahm. Dennis is my brother. I have been a truck driver for 14 years and have driven 2 million paid miles. I have received many safe driving awards over the years. I am single and have never been married. I have a wide range of interests and am pretty much an open book. Currently I drive a 2006 Freightliner for a major carrier. I dont go to Canada very often. I dont have a dedicated route so I run the entire lower 48. I enjoy reading cinema music sports travel etc. I am gay and versatile.
- makes off-color joke about our chances being good due to our oral skills -
Um, Chrissy Gephardt is from Missouri.
But, as Meredith Willson wrote about his musical about Iowa, “There’s nothing halfway about the Iowa way to treat you …” Doesn’t surprise me a bit that Iowa is one of the first states to provide a ruling. And, unlike in San Francisco, the one couple who was able to get married before the ruling was stayed was able to stay married — the marriage wasn’t nullified by the stay. Does anyone know how that couple is doing?
I think it might help a little that those two Iowa college students ran and out and got married by that Unitarian minister on his front lawn. I mean it puts a human face on this and no one can argue that it is just an abstract issue and that no real human being rights are being denied. Who knows, maybe that will help.