Iowa Too Keen On Marriage Equality For Right Wing

[WillParkinson]

Iowa Too Keen On Marriage Equality For Right Wing

Iowa conservatives have been plotting to win back the state legislature and subsequently reverse that state's marriage equality law.

Conservative lawmakers are watching public opinion move away from them on the gay marriage issue, and now fear that voters might not approve a ban even if the GOP can put one on the ballot by winning control of the Legislature in the November elections.

The shifting views come as a bitter disappointment for the state's prominent Christian conservative community which has long bridled at Iowa's status as a gay rights haven in the heartland — the only place outside the Northeast where gays can marry.

"People are getting comfortable with it and that's a shame to tell you the truth," said Susan Geddes, an Iowa Republican and social conservative organizer who worked for Mike Huckabee's 2008 presidential campaign in the state.

The Des Moines Register poll conducted last February found that 56% of Iowans oppose a ban on marriage equality. Meanwhile, a survey from 2009, the year Iowa's Supreme Court ruled a ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional, found only 40% of Iowans opposed such anti-gay prohibitions, so clearly people are getting more than "comfortable with it."

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[Swede Atlanta]

1. Ah yes, it's a darned shame when the murkan peeples.....

get comfortable with the idea that equality is a value that shouldn't be reserved for the Pledge of Allegiance, the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence but should be manifest in how citizens are treated under the law.

It's a darned shame when people see that all the dire predictions from the right about marriage equality were hype and lies. Heterosexual marriage in Iowa has not been affected by marriage equality. Gays have not been now openly courting heterosexual married men and women out of their marriages. The "sanctity" of marriage was gone a long time before marriage equality was on the scene.

But to them unless you can exert your power over someone else, make them know "who is boss", they can't rest. Republicans really don't like the idea of equality. They want an oligarchy both in terms of economic power but also social power.

[DCKit]

2. Sane Iowans have already realized that their marriages aren't threatened by equality.

We are making strides, even if we get set back in some places.

Don't sweat it, don't become militant about it and, eventually, we'll have a better country.

[William769]

3. Recommended.