Comments on: Okay To Be Gay In The Middle Of The USA

By: Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy

Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 13:26:02 +0000

Great comments, folks – you do my heart good!

By: NoBamaNoWay

NoBamaNoWay — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 09:25:51 +0000

kudos to iowa; my folks and kin are from iowa. i live in SD now, and i think that in general, mid-western people are not haters, but of course they are subject to the ignorance that has existed about homosexuals. that is slowly being overcome.

By: elise

elise — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 08:05:24 +0000

That is good news and from Iowa no less. One state at a time is the way to go and Suze Orman presented the economic and legal benefits. There is the added benefit to the children of gay couples being accepted by their peers when their parents marriage is recognized. Our next door neighbors are wonderful parents and they have homeschooled all four of the kids, they spend more time as a family than most heterosexual families I know. The two older boys look after our home and animals when we go out of town and they are more responsible than the nanny we used to hire. They are wonderful neighbors and I would love for them to be able to marry.

By: Sarah James

Sarah James — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 07:35:21 +0000

I’m so glad that this happened! I feel that it’s inevitable that homosexuals have the same rights as heterosexuals. This is the civil rights battle of today! And those that stand against it now will be seen in history like those who stood against the civil rights of the 1960s.

By: Jacky Philosophy

Jacky Philosophy — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 07:31:19 +0000

This is great news. I feel it’s inevitable that eventually homosexuals get the same rights that heterosexuals do. I feel that it is today’s civil rights movement. The world continues to progress and those that stand in progress’s way must be rolled over.

By: JozefAL

JozefAL — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 05:56:10 +0000

It’s just too bad that a certain Presidential candidate was more concerned with winning a popularity contest among those who didn’t share his social agenda but did share his skin tone than he was with ensuring that California’s LGBT community was treated as having FULL equality under the law, instead of the “separate but equal” treatment accorded through “civil unions” and “domestic partnerships”.
“Marriage” is no more the province of religion than the right of free speech. I mean, is everyone aware that there are a number of religions and religious denominations that prohibit their ministers/pastors/whatever from performing interfaith marriages? It seems to me that an interfaith marriage involves religion to the extreme but a Jew cannot be prohibited from marrying a Catholic and a Methodist can’t be barred from marrying a Southern Baptist. The local house of worship is under no obligation to perform the ceremony, but only the engaged couple and their family have any real say in whether they actually, you know, GET MARRIED.
Let the religious nuts who are so outraged over same-sex marriage go to hell as far as I’m concerned. If they spent half as much of their time and energy fighting divorce and marital infidelity as they do same-sex marriage, maybe the institution of marriage wouldn’t be as troubled as it is.

By: jwrjr

jwrjr — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 03:38:14 +0000

I am not gay. I don’t know any gay people (that I am aware of). And I think that the Iowa Supreme Court got it right.

By: John (from Liberal Rapture)

John (from Liberal Rapture) — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 03:29:16 +0000

I am an Iowa fan forever now.

By: Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy

Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 03:03:48 +0000

I know – if anyone had asked me which state was going to approve same sex marriage next, I’m pretty sure I would NOT Have guessed Iowa! Good for them! And us!

By: lorac

lorac — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:57:02 +0000

Yay! Way to go, Hawkeyes! (and ok ok, Cyclones, too)! I’ve always loved Iowa, but now there’s a new reason!