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Iowa Same-Sex "Marriage": One Instance of Judicial Activism Begets Another?

By Alliance Defense Fund

Yesterday afternoon a Polk County, Iowa, trial court granted summary judgment to Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund and their test plaintiffs, holding that Iowa's Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional and is stricken from the Iowa Code, ordering the Polk County Registrar to issue "marriage" licenses to the plaintiffs and any other otherwise-qualified same-sex couples, and decreeing that all remaining provisions of Iowa's Marriage Code must be "read and applied in a gender-neutral...(read more)

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on August 31, 2007 (boomark / email).