Americans are quietly wondering how they can stop the spread of legalized same-sex marriage. The Iowa state supreme court decision approving same-sex marriage was particularly shocking.
%%19%%There are seven justices on Iowa’s supreme court; they were appointed by both Republican and Democratic governors over the past 15 years; and not one of them could identify a valid public purpose for the traditional marriage institution that has guided our civilization for thousands of years.
The unanimity of the Iowa decision was very different from the seven other states where state supreme courts have ruled on same-sex marriage — Massachusetts, Washington, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Connecticut, and California. More than 50 state justices sit on those seven state supreme courts, and the majority had no trouble recognizing the value of conferring public recognition and benefits on the union of husband and wife.
Iowa does not allow citizen initiatives to go directly to the ballot, as is the practice in most other states. In Iowa, a citizen initiative must first pass through the State Legislature. The leaders of both houses of the Iowa state legislature have refused to allow their members to vote on a marriage amendment even though polls show that two-thirds of Iowans support traditional marriage.
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