Iowa gay marriage victory

[rm]

http://ga4.org/lambdalegal/notice-description.tcl?newsletter_id=32354280

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/03/iowa.same.sex/index.html

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/04/03/us/AP-Iowa-GayMarriage.html

Comments

[tacky-tramp.livejournal.com]

Made me smile this morning.

[affreca.livejournal.com]

Damn that makes me happy.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

8)

[jendaby.livejournal.com]

I just heard about this and I am very happy! Now I have to pester my sister in Iowa for not being the first to tell me. :)

[offbalance.livejournal.com]

WOOHOO!!

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

The wheel turns, again. Baby steps...

[gement.livejournal.com]

Iowa. IOWA!

I feel a deep sense of confidence and satisfaction, that my premonition when everyone was grieving over Prop 8 is holding true. I know setbacks suck, and they're tangibly affecting real people right now, but...

"The avalanche has started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote." - Kosh, Babylon 5

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

I am totally stealing the B5 quote for a header.

[gement.livejournal.com]

Precise quote has a word I missed (I just looked it up for your precision-quoting pleasure): "The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote."

I need a pedantry icon.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

I ::heart:: your pedantry.
The difference between geeky and pedantic is not so great, no?

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

I got your States Rights right here, crackers!

[rm.livejournal.com]

Okay, can we not use the word "cracker"?

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

My paternal family uses it self descriptively, but I won't use it anymore.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

Even the expression "I come from a long line of Southern Crackers" is permanently excised from my vocabulary, externally and internally.
You must always make this rebukes known to me. It's important.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

*these rebukes*

[rm.livejournal.com]

Well, people can describe themselves as they want, regardless of what I think of it. And I think there's are huge differences between using a historical slur for empowerment ("queer") in self-describing and using it for shock value and using it as a historical slur for the purpose of aggrandizing a belief in a lack of self-worth.

Honestly, the problem with what irked me is that when we insist on referring to the middle of the country as backwards, it just encourages the middle of the country to dismiss anything the coasts have to say and it doesn't help causes like gay marriage or abortion rights.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

I won't do it again.

[kessie.livejournal.com]

*glee!*

[blackbird-song.livejournal.com]

More hope for the world, and perhaps eventually for a discussion that is a bit less about assimilation and a lot more about respect, acceptance and true openness of mind and frame.

[dedra.livejournal.com]

Iowa!

I was so despondent after the whole Prop 8 debacle, I begged Sandy to stop asking me (to marry her, that is) because I was certain that it would never ever happen. But Iowa! In the buckle of the Bible Belt! It's almost too much for my little heart to take.

I can only hope that as we slowly break down the walls that cage us in, we don't get hurt in the fallout. While that sounds fatalistic, I have had my dreams of getting married dashed more than once and I don't know that I could last as long as Del and Phyllis did without going postal or the like.

Thank you so very much for conveying such wonderful, hopeful news!

[miep.livejournal.com]

iowa is so not the buckle of the bible belt.

also, I think M and I might need a road trip.

[dedra.livejournal.com]

Close--where would you consider to be the buckle? Just curious. I live in IL and it's close enough for me.

[miep.livejournal.com]

I'm in Minnesota, but my sense is that the belt is slung a bit lower, say around Kansas. ;)

[dedra.livejournal.com]

So you're in the Bible shirt and I'm in the Bible pants, lol!

[miep.livejournal.com]

hey, as a queer episcopalian, I find it funny that people would feel the need to dress their bibles at all. ;)

[dedra.livejournal.com]

Me too. ;)

[graene.livejournal.com]

Why not? We dress the Torah every time we read from it, and that dos form the first five books of the Christian bible. ;)

[graene.livejournal.com]

Just finished reading the actual ruling. I appreciate it and want to throw it in the faces of people who were crying in sadness, force them to face their bigotry.