Red Echo

April 3, 2009

The Iowa Supreme Court has just unanimously invalidated the state’s same-sex marriage ban. Iowa! I had no idea such a case was even in the works there. Now we must hope this doesn’t provoke a Proposition-8 style backlash – though California’s Proposition 8 has brought on a backlash of its own, with a Supreme Court challenge, a counter-petition, and proposal to remove all references to marriage from California law, substituting “domestic partnership”.