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Related: About this forum10th anniversary of Varnum v. Brien ( marriage equality decision in Iowa)
April 3rd, 2009
I still remember where I was when I heard the news. I was very, very skeptical. Iowa & gay marriage?
It was kind of a magically strange day.
But Iowa's Pope, Bob VanderPlaats and his band of haters has been on a ten year vengeance tear doing anything and everything to wreck Iowa's court system and take control of it. Thus we are sitting here watching Trumpublicans in the Iowa Legislature take a sledge hammer to the court system that is often considered to be one of the fairest for selecting judges.
There isn't anything the Trumpublicans won't wreck to have their way.
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10th anniversary of Varnum v. Brien ( marriage equality decision in Iowa) (Original Post)
rurallib
Apr 2019
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Louie Gohmert and the "Out Of State Hate Bus" arrived soon after and we were diminished.
IADEMO2004
Apr 2019
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IADEMO2004
(5,554 posts)1. Louie Gohmert and the "Out Of State Hate Bus" arrived soon after and we were diminished.
Irrational fear and hate in elections since then.
Cairycat
(1,706 posts)2. I remember being so proud to be an Iowan that day
It gave the rest of the country the message that same sex marriage wasn't just a coastal elites kind of thing, but heartland and mainstream.
I don't think the Trumpturds are going to have the final say.
rurallib
(62,416 posts)3. I posted my recollections over at blogforiowa last weekend