Comments on: Moves to force vote on constitutional same-sex marriage ban ruled out of order

By: mattachine

mattachine — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:48:06 +0000

Churches are unaffected by the Iowa Supreme Court ruling but this doesn't satisfy theocrats; they want to dictate everybody's beliefs. State and federal DOMAs are all discriminatory and will fall under legal scrutiny; only Mob Rule at political and/or religious levels can prop up these atavistic doctrines.

German anti-fascist Martin Niemoller:
"First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out.
Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out.
Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out.
And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me."

Matthew Shepard's torture and murder have prompted federal hate-crimes legislative attempts every year since 1998; to date, all have failed. Gay people have always had to fight for our LIVES. Marriage is a luxury but it is essential to full equality; thank you Iowa legislators for denying Mob Rule in a Representative Democracy.

By: mattachine

mattachine — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:48:06 +0000

By: RegularJoe

RegularJoe — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:42:56 +0000

Silly Radicals, HATE is no longer acceptable in Iowa. It never really was, but now it's confirmed. Please crawl back under your rocks now and work on your own marriage. You'll get your chance to vote on whether we should change our Constitution in 2010, despite what the nuts pulling your strings keep telling you. It's automatic. Of course, you'll lose the fight then, too. Hate is really so Nineteenth Century....just like slavery, discrimination against women, racism, and so on.

btw, check out the buttons celebrating the recognition of civil rights around the nation at http://www.thejoezone.info/buttons/