Iowa Legalizes Same-sex Marriage

[Guest Stuv]

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/2...3/NEWS/90403010

I posted this in the general forum because it's not purely TG news, but just sort of news for the general queer community. Um, I'm excited, sorry if it's not appropriate?

[Guest Zabrak]

Yay.

[Guest Elizabeth K]

Louisiana doesn't. But after my SRS I can legally change my sex on my birth certificate and marry a man, as I would suddenly be a hetherosexual with a male lover. Power of the pen!

Go figure!

Lizzy

[Sally]

Here's one of your odd facts for today:

In Texas same sex marriages are not legal, but if you are married and have srs and change your birth certificate - you are still married!

I know it doesn't make any sense but we have a lot of laws that don't.

Love ya,

Sally

[Guest Stuv]

What motivated me to post was the quote farther down:

“I think it’s significant because Iowa is considered a Midwest sate in the mainstream of American thought,” Socarides, a senior political assistant for Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin in the early 1990s, said Thursday. “Unlike states on the coasts, there’s nothing more American than Iowa. As they say during the presidential caucuses, ‘As Iowa goes, so goes the nation.’”

It gives me hope for a dominoes-style restructuring and possibly a SCOTUS case leading to the repeal of DOMA

[gennee]

The states you least expect to advance glbt causes are doing so. Congrats to Iowa. I believe Vermont did the same thing too.

Gennee

[Guest Leigh]

hell yes. i'm so excited. it's been so long. i mean, i remember in high school when the whole ban on gay marriage issue was becoming hot, hot, hot. and i had so much faith in the american people...silly little me. i was shocked when they passed a ban here in ohio. but i was just 14, and still an idealist. i remember talking to one of my HS social studies teachers (his brother is gay) and i was telling him how there was no way that americans could pass a ban on gay marriage, because that would be as backward as undoing civil rights. and he just told me to wait and see. and i sure did. maybe we're finally moving in the right direction.

love&peace

[Guest skyy]

thats great!!! we are actually getting there. w00t!!

[Guest Chrissie]

The states you least expect to advance glbt causes are doing so. Congrats to Iowa. I believe Vermont did the same thing too.

Gennee

From someone living in Iowa I'm still in a state of shock.... I thought for sure that they'd be banging their heads with this issue for another several years .... this is a complete surprise ...

and i just got back from a Rally celebrating this....

[Guest DaJe]

Yay, good to see Iowa can join us other states that have enough sensibility . I know Iowa might not be viewed like the place this would happen, but I think perhaps people have too much of a warped view of it. Though I could be wrong, I've never been there

[Guest Jackson]

Chrissie, you're so funny.

Being not that far away from you and another state in America's Heartland, I nearly fell over when I heard the news. I never thought Iowa would pass the vote.

But it's been done. Now I'm looking to see if the other states around us will...

[Guest Sarah Marie]

Here's one of your odd facts for today:

In Texas same sex marriages are not legal, but if you are married and have srs and change your birth certificate - you are still married!

I know it doesn't make any sense but we have a lot of laws that don't.

Love ya,

Sally

Sally -- I agree, that does seem like a weird law. But look on the bright side: at least Texas lets you change your birth certificate after srs. I have heard that, even after completing srs, Idaho still will not allow you to change your birth certificate, or anything else.

I am really, really ecstatic about the Iowa ruling. On the one hand, it is widely seen as the quintessential midwestern state. On the other hand, I have Iowa roots, and have seriously considered Iowa City as a place to move to off and on for years. (My patrilineal grandfather grew up in Webster City, and graduated from Iowa State College in Ames before going on to medical school.)