Iowa’s anti-gay marriage bill is dead for another year
Timothy Kincaid
February 9th, 2010

In a publicity stunt (send money) Republicans in the Iowa legislature tried to pull from committee legislation that would begin the process of changing the state constitution to ban gay marriage. As expected, the Democrat controlled House and Senate both said, “no thanks, dead in that committee is fine with me.”

However, we should be appreciative of the Republicans. After all, this effort revealed two Democrats who hate equality so much that they were willing to defy party loyalty and vote to pull the bills from committee. They are Senator Tom Hancock and Representative Dolores Mertz.

Gay Iowans, and indeed all Iowans who believe that each citizen is entitled to equal treatment under the law, are invited to find and support primary opponents for these two legislators.

"adultery, fraternization and body art." … if that senator means tattoos, then that is truly a bizarre statement to make. Tattoos have a long tradition within armed forces around the world over the last century, and is the norm.

It's a pity the same blinkered, twisted logic wasn't thrust back at him, by accusing him of being 'unpatriotic' and disrespectful to the American service men and women and their Allies throughout history.

That's ridiculous and absurd. What could they be afraid of? The Red Giant going pink and fabulous? C'mon, this century is still your's, so live in accordance to it.

It's great to be Canadian eh?

Another one, yay!  ;D

Several Latin American countries or cities have legalised same-sex civil unions, but these
generally confer fewer legal rights than marriage.

Civil Unions are always inferior to marriage, because even if the country makes the them completely equal, international law refuses to accept them as equal to marriage.

Also, once gays get civil unions, the government says we got our equality, even though you can easily prove it's not equal, so they won't do anything else for us.

"As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression.
In both instances, there's a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged,
and it is in such twilight that we must be aware of change in the air,
however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness."

-William O. Douglas
United States Supreme Court Associate Justice (1939-1975)

For this most informative post!! Certainly now is not the time for complacency in the never ending struggle for equal rights for LGBT people worldwide!! We must all do what we can when we can to end this discrimination now!!

@cumeaternc:

…Normally people like her who claim to walk the straight and narrow in the public eye will be exposed at some point.

I told you so. Karma is a bitch ;D

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