Gay marriage ruling in Iowa!

[chicken]

I'm surprised not to have seen this on my f-list yet, it seems like huge news!

http://www.planetout.com/news/article.html?date=2007/08/30/3&navpath=/news/

http://www.planetout.com/news/article.html?2007/08/31/4

It isn't totally legal yet because it's being appealed to the state
supreme court, but there's a good chance it will stand.

California, Maryland, and Connecticut are considering related cases.

On this first day of September, three days before the first anniversary of my mother's death, I find this news very uplifting. She was a native Iowan, and as a champion of gay rights (thanks to having me as her gay gay daughter, and having several gay friends), I think she would have been very happy about this.

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[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

(By the way, my mother is also a native Iowan. She was a city girl, growing up in Davenport while her father worked at the Rock Island Arsenal, and keeps having to remind people that the state is not all farmland.)

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

My mother did actually grow up in a small village, not exactly on a farm, but they did have a cow. This was during the Depression, though.