Equal Marriage in Iowa, Closer Than We Think? Queer Orgs "Cautiously Optimistic"

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Equal Marriage in Iowa, Closer Than We Think? Queer Orgs "Cautiously Optimistic"
by: theantidesi101
Mon Dec 08, 2008 at 15:50:18 PM EST

http://pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=47CE414DE736044A534DB1BB8C1586C8?diaryId=8541

Lambda Legal has dropped a very juicy quote about the upcoming equal marriage case in the Iowa Supreme Court Case:

    Last year County Judge Robert Hanson ruled that [Iowa's ban on same-sex marriage] violated the constitutional rights of due process and equal protection....

    Lambda Legal, which represents the six couples said it is cautiously optimistic the Supreme Court will uphold Hanson's ruling.  Lambda attorney Camilla Taylor noted that the Iowa court traditionally has led the nation on civil rights issues, pointing out that the Iowa justices struck down a ban on interracial marriage more than a century before the U.S. Supreme Court declared such laws unconstitutional.