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What’s the Matter With Iowa?
Where the effort to create a test case for gay marriage just might pay off.
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A source familiar with the Iowa legislative process said that Thursday, March 6 was one of two “funnel days” for the 100-day 2008 legislative calendar. Since the amendment didn’t move forward on that day, chances are it won’t. Rants pointed out that Democratic state representative Kurt Swain “co-sponsored the marriage amendment bill and can’t even bring it to a full vote.”
The Des Moines Register reports that 122 of 150 lawmakers in Iowa support the traditional definition of marriage. But that’s a far cry from supporting a constitutional amendment to that effect, which the Democratic leadership has declined to do. House Speaker Pat Murphy recently told the Sioux City Journal flatly, “We are not going to take up this bill.”
Would the legislature at least pass a residency requirement? No, said Rants: “We have no reason to think [the Democratic majority] will meet us half-way in that regard.”
He added, “Without a residency restriction, a gay marriage law would make Iowa ‘the gay Las Vegas.’”
Except that what happens in Iowa won’t stay in Iowa.
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