Tag Archives: Iowa

Marriage equality activists gathered in Omaha on a pedestrian bridge connecting Nebraska and Iowa this weekend to demand their rights. Gay and lesbian couples and supporters from Nebraska and Iowa marched to the Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge and met in the middle with a message. “As soon as you cross the line, you’re no longer married. You realize that? We’ve …

“We stood firm for the civil rights of every Iowan by saying loudly and clearly that any and all efforts to add discriminatory amendments to our state constitution have no place in our state constitution. Regardless of our personal views, we have a line that needs to be drawn between the executive branch and the judicial branch and I think …

Yesterday Iowa state Rep. Chris Hagenow attempted to exclude married gay couples from protection under a domestic abuse law. Senate File 2357 brings federal laws concerning protective orders and conviction of domestic violence with relation to possession of guns into Iowa’s law. Rep. Chris Hagenow, R-Windsor Heights, offered an amendment that would define the term spouse to be a person …

Good As You points us to this clip of anti-gay Iowans chanting their desire to inflict their bigotry on their gay neighbors. LUV Iowa is working towards a 2014 repeal of marriage equality, the earliest it can be achieved.

It takes a lot of work to amend the Iowa state constitution, but anti-gay forces there have launched the first salvo in a campaign intended to result in the 2014 overturn of marriage equality. From the petition of LUV (Let Us Vote) Iowa: Whereas: Marriage as established by God should be recognized by the civil power as legally, morally and …

It may take a few years, but the Iowa Family Policy Council is laying the groundwork to repeal same-sex marriage. The Iowa Family Policy Council’s Bryan English told the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier that the group is asking 150 state lawmakers where they stand on a ballot measure similar to California’s Proposition 8 and Maine’s Question 1 — both of which …

Over the complaints of more than 100 parents, Ames, Iowa is backing a librarian’s decision that a sex advice magazine written by and for teenagers remain on the shelves. The above image is a screen shot from magazine’s website. A teen sex magazine will stay on the shelves at the Ames Public Library despite a petition signed by more than …

Representatives from three Iowa visitors bureaus set up a booth at Gay Days at Disneyland Resort this weekend, encouraging gays to come live and marry in their state. At the booth set up inside Disney’s Grand Californian hotel, gay and lesbian couples sampled wedding cake and posed for photos inside a frame that read, “Just Married … In Iowa City!” …

“If there’s a push for a socialist society where the foundations of individual rights and liberties are undermined and everybody is thrown together living collectively off one pot of resources earned by everyone, this is one of the goals they have to go to, same sex marriage, because it has to plow through marriage in order to get to their …

Anti-gay candidate Stephen Burgmeirer, who was backed by NOM to the tune of $86,000 in TV and radio ads, lost in yesterday’s Iowa House special election. Democrat Curt Hanson defeated Republican Stephen Burgmeier by 107 votes tonight in a special election for Iowa House District 90, according to unofficial results from the Iowa secretary of state. Hanson tallied 48.9 percent …

HRC Backstory reports that in addition to being investigated for for violating campaign finance laws in Maine, now the Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board is looking into NOM’s shenanigans too. Turns out NOM has failed to register as a PAC and disclose contributors. NOM even boasts in their fundraising letters that they offer donors anonymity. Said the Iowa board …

Bookended with commentary from One Iowa….

NOM has made an $86K radio and television buy on behalf of Iowa House candidate Stephen Burgmeier, who is working to overturn marriage equality. On Top Magazine reports: Anti-gay marriage groups are ratcheting up their efforts to influence the Iowa Legislature in an effort to repeal gay marriage in the state. The latest evidence of such a plan can be …

Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA), whose infamous homophobia resulted in an occasional by-product of anal sex being named after him, is considering a presidential run in 2012. Santorum will begin testing the waters with a trip to Iowa this fall. “ I’m very concerned about the state of affairs in this country and how Republicans are dealing with [issues], so …

On behalf of the Iowa Family Policy Council, a local couple has published an editorial in the Des Moines Register titled Homosexual lifestyle, marriage cause families pain. The piece tells the story of their recently deceased son, who was “recruited” into the “cult” of homosexuality “by a coworker” and then “abandoned” by his “friends” to die of AIDS alone. A …

Jeremy at Good As You found this corker from Fort Lauderdale’s Coral Ridge Ministries. I guess we’re the cats in this scenario.

This is a really, really sweet clip. (Via JMG reader Diane In Iowa City) Dubuque’s Telegraph-Herald notes the dramatic change in the lives of gay Iowans over the last two decades. Twenty-two years ago, a handful of gay and lesbian activists held a rally in Dubuque that bordered on a riot when hundreds of anti-gay hecklers surrounded them, throwing eggs …

Same-sex marriage became legal this morning in Iowa and judges waived the three-day waiting period for some couples who wanted to marry immediately. Under the headline Historic Day For Iowa, the Des Moines Register is covering the scene at county recorders’ offices all over the state. Anti-gay activists delivered petitions at some state offices demanding that recorders “obey their conscience” …

The Iowa Family Policy Center and the Alliance Defense Fund are encouraging Iowa’s county recorders to exercise their “right of conscience” and refuse to process marriage license applications from same-sex couples. Former Iowa legislator Ed Fallon has responded by filing ethics charges against state Sen. Merlin Bartz for circulating a petition and creating a website in support of the anti-gay …

Anti-gay haters in Iowa are trying every trick in the book to overturn marriage equality. Here’s how One Iowa is responding. Contribute to keeping this ad on Iowa’s airwaves here.