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

[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. ;)