Bartz, Iowa Family Policy Center encourage county officials to defy supreme court same-sex marriage ruling

By Chase Martyn 4/21/09 11:42 AM

State Sen. Merlin Bartz (R-Grafton) has enlisted the help of the Iowa Family Policy Center to circulate petitions designed to encourage Iowa’s 99 county recorders to defy the Iowa Supreme Court’s decision in Varnum v. Brien that effectively legalized same-sex marriage.

According to instructions emailed out to the Iowa Family Policy Center’s members and posted on Bartz’s poorly formatted web page, conservatives should print out copies of the petition form to bring with them to church this Sunday, and then they should deliver signed petitions to their county recorder when their office opens Monday morning:

DIRECTIONS REGARDING COUNTY RECORDERS PETITION

Print as many copies of this petition as you so desire.

Distribute petitions to anybody you feel who would be inclined to help in this endeavor.

Before submitting petitions to your county recorder, make two copies of the signed petition. Keep one for yourself and send a copy for accountability purposes to the Iowa Family Policy Center, 1100 N. Hickory, Suite 107, Pleasant Hill, IA 50327.

If you need further instructions on how to deliver your petition to your county recorder, feel free to call 1-877-866-IFPC.

Please print and take several copies to church with you on Sunday. Then, commit to stopping by your Recorder’s office next Monday morning to hand deliver them just as the office opens.

The struggle between the Supreme Court and Iowa law is causing a constitutional crisis in the state of Iowa, and your County Recorder is caught in the middle. Please keep your recorder in prayer, and bring as many signatures as possible to them on Monday to show that you support them. Recorders offices open at 8:00, so be sure to get there early.

Social conservatives frequently use churches to gain petition signatures and disseminate promotional materials.

All elected officials in Iowa are required to take an oath of office pledging to support the Iowa Constitution, which grants courts the right to strike laws that are inconsistent with the rights embodied in the document. Defying an Iowa Supreme Court decision could be considered a violation of the oath.

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ChickT

Keep up your work against same sex marriage. We the people of Iowa should have the right yo vote on this before it was made law in Iowa.

Thank you for all the work you have done

rascalofearth

My gop friends often frame issues by saying wwrr do? And since past actions is all we have for our dear departed President Raygunzzzzzzzzzzz intentions we know his answer, as with the Air Traffic Controllers, would be YOUR FIRED!

I am getting mighty sick of folks taking jobs as doctors, pharmacists etc and then using a claim of 'morals' to pick and choose which parts of the job they feel like doing and which patients they feel like screwing. I am especially angry when the govt caves in and actually gives these talibanistic overlords legal cover for thier outrageous behavior. There is such a thing as public accomodation...meaning if you open a restaurant to the public you cannot simply discriminate based soley upon your own feelings of who deserves service no matter how strongly or how biblically justified by man those feelings might be.

If we don't put a stop to these exceptions we will have chaos and a loss of our Constitutional freedoms as rastas insist on toking up, sikhs insist on thier beards and turbans in the military and I demand a paid holiday for my savior's B-day on January 8th.

Irish_Wake

"The struggle between the Supreme Court and Iowa law is causing a constitutional crisis." An interesting take on constitutional law procedures.

Since the Supreme Court's function is to determine the constitutionality of laws, this ruling is a sign of a healthy republic operating as it should. There is no crisis; the government continues to function in the manner approved by our founding fathers.

Senator Bartz is encouraging county employees to engage in illegal and unconstitutional behavior.

slincoln

It has already been made clear that anyone defying the order will be at risk of loosing the jobs.
So I guess this means that the GOP is pushing for people oppose our constitution... and lose their jobs... during our poor economy.

desmoinesdem

You can read the full text of the petition at the end of this post at Bleeding Heartland:

http://tinyurl.com/czz8rg

awmason

Bartz claims on the aforementioned website that during this session he wanted to protect the system of checks and balances in Iowa Government. Go figure.

Bartz, Iowa Family Policy Center encourage county officials to defy supreme court same-sex marriage ruling

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