Iowa and Vermont – Gay Marriage
April 7th, 2009
There’s a lot of news from the same-sex and gay marriage front lately. I just want to provide the facts here and see where this all goes.
Iowa gave gay couples the right to marry this month through their Supreme Court decision that struck down the laws against gay marriage. Iowa will begin to allow same-sex marriages this month. Opponents of the high court decision is already gearing up for a battle by getting support to pass a constitutional amendment (similar to what they did in California). However, the fastest a constitutional amendment can be passed would be in 2012. So the fight is not over in Iowa.
Vermont, the first state to offer same-sex civil unions, as of today, is the first state to allow same-sex marriage not through the courts but by a vote of the legislature. This means that a constitutional amendment in Vermont to outlaw same-sex marriage is highly unlikely and gay marriage is here to stay in Vermont.
As of today, these states allow same-sex marriage: Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont and Iowa.
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The vast majority is against gay marriage. Every state that has had a vote of the people, has voted against gay marriage. Marriage is to produce, protect, and raise children. Gays cannot have their own children. Any child of gays has been denied his or her fundamental right, recognized under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (which >190 countries including the US has signed), to know and be raised by his or her mother and father.
Does Vermont allow for a constitutional amendment via vote by the people, like California does?