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Green card applications that would have otherwise been denied based solely on the applicant’s HIV status have now been placed on hold, in anticipation of a rule change from U.S. Health and Human Services that will effectively end a ban that has been in existence for more than two decades.
The Sept. 15 memo, authored by [...]

Same-sex marriage is not only a radical social idea, it is a “purely socialist concept” and is part of a broader push by to turn the United States into a socialist country, U.S. Rep. Steve King said Wednesday during an interview with a conservative talk radio station.

Nick Rhoades is the first to admit that he was wrong, and that he deserved reprimand for failing to disclose to an intimate partner that he had tested positive for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. What he isn’t sure of, however, is the effectiveness of the decade-old Iowa law with which he was charged.

A bill that would overturn the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) has been introduced in the U.S. House, and Iowa’s largest LGBT group is urging the state’s lawmakers to sign on.

In what’s shaping up to be a hard fought race in House District 90, Republican Stephen Burgmeier has received the endorsement of anti-gay rights organization Everyday America.

Management at The Elkhart Truth in Elkhart, Indiana was unintentionally put in the center of the same-sex marriage debate this week when it published an Iowa couple’s marriage announcement.
The Iowa couple — Michael Berkey and James Chapin, both of Hanlontown — were featured in the newpaper’s July 12 engagement section because Berkey is a graduate [...]

Reversing course from a policy put in place under the Bush administration, same-sex couples will be counted as married in the upcoming 2010 census.
It was announced last summer that because the federal government could not legally recongnize same-sex marriages, same-sex couples would go uncounted. But last week, the new administration of President Barack Obama announced [...]

“We do have to face the voters, but we also have to face ourselves every morning,” said Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal. “We have to be able to look ourselves in the mirror every day. And by the way, we didn’t do this for the GLBT community. We did this for everybody.”

The vote count is close on the question of gay marriage in the Iowa Legislature, but the personal feelings are overwhelming, according to a Des Moines Register survey published Sunday. Only six legislators — three senators and three representatives, all Democrats from urban districts — answered no when asked "Do you believe marriage should be [...]

Gov. Chet Culver is urging Iowans to take a deep, slow breath in response to an opinion filed by the Iowa Supreme Court Friday, which said a lesbian had the right to seek custody and visitation of adoptive children. The woman and her partner, the children’s biological mother, had separated.
Although opponents of same-sex marriage could [...]