It seems that Iowans, unlike Californians, couldn't care less about taking away civil rights from gay people.
The Des Moines Register conducted a poll of Iowans asking, “The state Legislature can address large and small issues during the course of the session. For the following issues, please tell me if you think the issue does or does not deserve the Legislature’s limited time.” Banning gay marriage did not make the cut; only 36% thought it was worth the time discussing.
Not only was it not deemed worthy of legislative time, of the six issues that Iowans were questioned about, addressing gay marriage concerned them the least. Iowans were more concerned about payday loans and puppy mills than there were about whether same-sex couples married.
So in Iowa, regulating dog breeders is more important than "saving" marriage for human breeders.
But some people haven't figured that out yet. Brian Brown, the new face of NOM (and if that's the best they could do, I feel sorry for them -- he really looks like an axe murderer) is crapping his panties over the non-news that Judge Vaughan Walker, of Perry vs. Schwarzenegger fame, is gay. I'm not going to quote his rant, which you can read in full at Pam's House Blend. It's not only hysterical, but pretty much completely factually challenged. (Another non-news item.) Funny how he feels impelled to bring this terrible "secret" (which everyone knew) to light, now that the pro-discrimination side has shown itself to have no case. (I'm not going to waste time parsing Brown's screed -- it's enough to note that almost nothing he says is true, and what is true is severely spun.)
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