Iowa Gay Marriage Opponents Pushing For Constitutional Amendment To Let Voters Decide

The AP reports that opponents "of Iowa's gay marriage law are promising to push hard during the 2010 legislative session for a vote on a constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex unions. Bryan English of Iowa Family Policy Council ACTION says pro-marriage supporters plan to be at the state Capitol en masse on Jan. 12 when Gov. Chet Culver delivers his Condition of the State address to a joint session of the General Assembly with Iowa Supreme Court justices present. He says the occasion will mark the first time that all three branches of state government are together since a unanimous Supreme Court ruled April 3 that a state law defining marriage as between one man and one woman was unconstitutional, clearing the way for same-sex marriages in Iowa."

Iowa is a state in which an activist Supreme Court mandated gay marriage by judicial fiat. It is an example of the Court imposing policy upon the people rather than upholding and enforcing the law as intended. It is an example of judicial usurpation of the legitimate rights of the legislature and people to decide issues of policy, such as whether marriage should be defined as a traditional union between man and woman or should be expanded to now include homosexual couples as well. The only way to allow the issue to return to its legitimate domain is by putting a Constitutional amendment to the people for a vote, and it is for this reason that I support the effort to do so. Tweet