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Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023

“Disgusting hatred”: Iowa Republicans propose amendment that would ban same-sex marriages

Author:     CHRIS WALKER
Source:     Salon
Publication Date:     MARCH 2, 2023 | 5:00PM (EST)
 Link: “Disgusting hatred”: Iowa Republicans propose amendment that would ban same-sex marriages
Stephan:  

Here is yet another example of why I think a large number of people are going to move out of Red states. The Republican sexual dysfunctional obsession with the LGBTQ communities has become one of the dominant trends in Red states. I am waiting for the Blue states to say, enough is enough, we do not want to keep underwriting with our tax dollars the failure of the Red states. If that were in some way to happen, the Red states already suffering from inferior quality of life, would collapse into the equivalent of third-world countries.

The actual proposal put forward by Iowa Republicans reads:

House Joint Resolution 8 would add the follow amendment to the state's constitution:

 Sec. 26.Marriage. In accordance with the laws of nature and nature’s God, the state of Iowa recognizes the definition of marriage to be the solemnized union between one human biological male and one human biological female.
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Republican lawmakers in Iowa have submitted a proposal for a constitutional amendment in the state that would bar the recognition of marriage rights for same-sex couples.

The amendment, which was submitted this week, would only affect marriage rights in the state of Iowa and would not supersede federal marriage equality protections that have been in place since the Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court ruling in 2015. But should that ruling ever be overturned, the amendment, if passed, would grant the state the ability to deny Iowa’s same-sex couples the right to marry or have marriage benefits conferred to them.

Iowa became the third state in the nation to legalize same-sex marriage — and the first in the Midwest — after its state Supreme Court overturned a ban on same-sex marriage in 2009. If passed, the proposed constitutional amendment would negate that ruling.

For the amendment to become official, it must pass both houses of the state legislature, be signed by the governor, and pass the legislature again in the next session before being sent to voters.

A separate anti-LGBTQ bill submitted […]

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