trogon (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} trogon) wrote,@ 2009-04-03 09:00:00 |
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Iowa???
So Iowa, of all places, has become the third state where marriage equality is currently the law of the land, beating both Vermont and New Hampshire (where measures are making their way through the state legislatures) to the punch. I hereby apologize for every Iowa joke I ever made as a kid growing up in South Dakota.
Not that this will matter for anyone reading this, but I'd urge any gay Iowans considering marriage to (1) remember you're on a deadline, and that if Prop 8 is any guide marriages that predate a constitutional amendment may be allowed to stand, and (2) (and this one goes for straight allies in Iowa, too) take your opponents seriously, and don't fall victim to the complacency that some Californians did of thinking "it could never pass".
So Iowa, of all places, has become the third state where marriage equality is currently the law of the land, beating both Vermont and New Hampshire (where measures are making their way through the state legislatures) to the punch. I hereby apologize for every Iowa joke I ever made as a kid growing up in South Dakota.
Not that this will matter for anyone reading this, but I'd urge any gay Iowans considering marriage to (1) remember you're on a deadline, and that if Prop 8 is any guide marriages that predate a constitutional amendment may be allowed to stand, and (2) (and this one goes for straight allies in Iowa, too) take your opponents seriously, and don't fall victim to the complacency that some Californians did of thinking "it could never pass".
