April 29, 2009

Government Geldings

By Jan LaRue
Iowans may as well issue a formal declaration of surrender to the oligarchs on their supreme court if the governor and state legislature are allowed to forfeit their duties to uphold the state constitution. Why waste billions of dollars keeping them in office? Death to liberty needn't be so expensive. After 152 years, the Iowa Supreme Court had a judicial epiphany. On April 3, the judges divined an "equal protection" right to "same-sex marriage" in the Iowa Constitution. The court declared in Varnum v. Brien, "the language in Iowa Code section 595.2 limiting civil marriage to a man and a woman must be stricken from the statute, and the remaining statutory language must be interpreted and applied in a manner allowing gay and lesbian people full access to the institution of civil marriage." The fact that the Iowa Legislature reaffirmed traditional marriage in a 1998 statute was of no moment to the court. You'd think that the only branch vested with...(Read Full Article)