Posted on 04/03/2009 8:01:29 AM PDT by iowamark
—Why limit it there? I want to marry my furniture so I can claim additional tax deductions.—
I want to marry my computer. I spend enough time with it, after all!
Being 12 minutes from the Missouri border you don’t know how many times I’ve thought of doing just that.
For years, though I no longer lived there, I would claim Iowa as my home state. No longer. I will not utter it. I don’t belong there anymore. I am ashamed of the place. I am a full-fledged Tennessean now. To paraphrase Reagan: “I didn’t leave my home. My home left me.”
This needs to be stapled to John McCain, and all the rest of the hard-headed politicians who have been arguing AGAINST a constitutional amendment defining marriage. Their argument that it is a “state” issue. Well, excuse me - but the will of the people in Iowa by a large margin is that the legal definition of marriage be between one man and one woman. Period.
Yet the Iowa supreme court decides to legislate in favor of the homosexual lobby basically telling the Iowa legislature and voters “screw you”.
How is banning homosexual “marriage” against ANY Constitution in the US? My understanding is that 100% of citizens have the exact same set of rights including the right to marry someone of the opposite sex. These rulings are nothing but the granting of ADDITIONAL rights to ONE particular small (but vocal) minority. By the standards set by the IOWA Supreme court - what would be any different than a man walking in and demanding a marriage license to marry his favorite sheep?
People have to get it through their heads...the modern Democrat party is a far left party. Dem voters are acting as if their party has not changed since the days of JFK. The truth is that the Democratic party is unrecognizable from the party of forty years ago.
We have to get the message out to all our Democrat relatives, friends and neighbors. Why do you complain about liberal policies, such as big welfare, soft on crime judges, gay demands, big spending etc. when YOU keep electing Democrats. DON'T YOU KNOW THAT DEMOCRAT AND LIBERAL ARE ONE AND THE SAME!
Sorry I meant to say that Iowa has had two Democrat governors since Vilsack in 1999.
The age of reason has passed.
He may be Iowan, but he is not human.
When the sheeple vote for redistribution of wealth through the judiciary, just as they do now through the legislature, don't tell me that I didn't warn you.
New York law DOES allow first cousins to marry. Same for Massachusetts, I believe.
Word of warning: Even most conservatives from the Northeast or upper Midwest are not exactly big on aggressive Christianity. Most of the evangelical/pentecostal congregrations up here are rather small and/or dominated by blacks or hispanics. As for the RCC, well, there influence has waned considerably since Vat II, and the descendants of Catholic immigrants tend be be increasingly secularized.
been saying the same for some time now
Many Dems especially older Dems have nothing in common with the Dem party of today and we should be getting them on to our side.
Many old time Catholic Dems are in the north east and yet they still keep voting for the Dems, and thinking it is the party of JFK when clearly it is not, it’s more of a Marxist party now with aging hippies who rule it.
I blame the GOP and maybe some republicans for keeping silent and certainly the GOP not doing AD’s right now as we speak to inform voters around the country especially in Dem states what the Dem party is doing.
Rum AD’s saying that the Dem party stands for illegals, high taxes, big spending, abortion against their catholic faith, for homo to be married and have homosexuality taught in schools,
Show the voting records of their senators and officials and let the voters know that they vote for certain unpopular bills..
If the GOP did this we’d start winning and bringing them on to our side but instead the GOP do NOTHING, ABSOLUTLY NOTHING.
They have not gone after the pre paid credit cards yet and you can be sure that we will face millions in illegal money again and then watch the GOP cry about not having enough money
FOR CRYIGN OUT LOUD GOP GET OFF YOUR ARSE AND ATTACK, PICK DEMS OFF AND SPEAK FRIGGIN UP
yes I am so pissed off with the way this country is going
As a native Iowan, I am sad to see the major industries in the state change from agriculture and insurance to sodomy and gambling.
The quickest way to get this overturned is MONEY. Several posters have joked about it, but all that is required is for three or four brave Iowa FReepers to go down to the courthouse and apply for a marriage license for 3-4 (or more)people to all get married to each other. It would be best if one of them worked for the State. Once these Judges realize they have opened the floodgates of “fairness” with respect to marriage and that the State will have to provide benefits to ALL 4 (or more)spouses, the jig is up. Oh and think of the tax deductions you could have if you had say 12 or 13 spouses! Does Iowa have State Income Tax? If they deny them, class action law suit! Violation or your new rights. Any volunteers?
The original American Gothic subjects were a farmer and his daughter. Of course, that kind of marriage will be accepted now also under “equal protection.”
I am really super suprised at Grassley. I’ve always thought he was so wondeful, maybe he is just getting too old.
I don’t see how electing judges would make things any worse, and I certainly see how it would make things better. Your arguments are used to justify kings and queens. If the people cannot be trusted to elect judges, they cannot be trusted to elect any other official. Lifetime appointment of unaccountable judges is not acceptable. The process of impeachment is a fraud. They cannot be removed. The purpose of elections and term limits is to remove bad politicians. It needs to be applied to judges the same as for any other government official.
All the lines of what you are saying: the Bible says “If the bugle makes the uncertain sound who will follow?”
Republicans have to have a clear understanding of what to believe in and not be afraid to say it. Many Republicans like McCain and Bush are like the classic hen-pecked husband - yes dear, yes dear, anything you say dear. The Democrats act like haridans and shrews. Notice that they are not afraid to blame Republicans. All they do is BLAME, BLAME, BLAME. I don’t know if these Republicans have been socialized to be too gentlemanly, but if seems that they are afraid of words. How silly is that.
Plans are being made to do this. A friend(straight-father of 4) was discussing this with lawyers yesterday.
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