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- savvvy, on 04/07/2009, -4/+77 Iowa is now officially more progressive than California
- RagManX, on 04/07/2009, -2/+30Some friends of mine made a similar comment when I informed them of the Iowa supreme court decision. They couldn't believe Iowa would make this progressive move in advance of California.
- Frankttank, on 04/08/2009, -1/+26what an ironic comment coming from a guy with the name DICKBISCUITS...
sorry, couldn't resist. - inactive, on 04/08/2009, -1/+24Repressed homosexual right here ^....
- novenator, on 04/07/2009, -5/+24Jon Steward: genius.
- carterx, on 04/08/2009, -2/+20Non US link:
http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/the-daily-show-wi ... - adrianmchs, on 04/07/2009, -11/+29Give me my marriage rights back, California!
Hopefully, Iowa and now Vermont will lead as an example for other states.
I believe that even if Prop 8's pop up come election time they will be taken down.
Gay America, ***** Yeah! - novenator, on 04/08/2009, -0/+16aw crap. Damn gimpy finger!
Correction: Stewart - ReasonWinsOut, on 04/07/2009, -3/+19"You wanna have a catch?" Love it.
- ChaosProfessor, on 04/08/2009, -2/+17I live near Iowa I am considering becoming an ordained minister so I can open a Gay Chapel and make tons of Gay money!
I am dead serious about this i live near the Iowa Wisconsin Illinois border tons of people would come to me. YAY - johnnysaucepn, on 04/08/2009, -1/+14We're not designed to wear shoes. Have we been brainwashed by the cobbler agenda? We're not designed to drive cars, eat cooked food, fly in planes, inject ourselves with medicine or read books. We're not designed for communication behaviour involving typing on keyboards, so you're a victim of the internet agenda and should probably leave.
- normlsparky, on 04/08/2009, -7/+20This has to be embarrassing for CA.
- savvvy, on 04/07/2009, -0/+12stewar...D?
- SneakyNinja, on 04/08/2009, -4/+16I'm proud to call myself an Iowan. It's nice to see us making the news for something more than the caucuses or floods... :D
- mgraham80, on 04/08/2009, -3/+15Well, recall that California's Supreme Court got to a decision legalizing gay marriage well before the Iowa Supreme Court. Iowans just haven't had a chance to vote to overturn the decision yet.
Here's hoping once they do have that vote, however, they then show themselves to be more progressive and don't stop gays and lesbians from getting married. - brainboy7777, on 04/08/2009, -1/+11Better video of Stewart taking down the right last night: http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?vide ...
- inactive, on 04/08/2009, -1/+10Good news for now, but I'm sure the knuckle-dragging bigots aren't gonna let this go without a fight. Though for the life of me I can't understand why. I mean, it doesn't even affect them.
- inactive, on 04/08/2009, -0/+9Wait...so if you were typing that comment when Abraham Lincoln was President.
I'm guessing you would write: "Yep. That's what he said you pole smoking flamer. Suck my face, n****!
Since, they weren't allowed to marry each other.
sigh. - rolawson, on 04/08/2009, -1/+10...
That's your argument? - zephc, on 04/08/2009, -0/+8Jon Steward of Gondor!
- Diggnabbit, on 04/08/2009, -0/+7Our bodies weren't "designed" for anything.
- FredFredrickson, on 04/08/2009, -0/+7I hope that this does happen, or at least that the vote is considered and rejected on terms of being unconstitutional. It will help set legal precedents for other states (ie CA) who need to throw out the garbage "law" that squeaked by in the last election.
- No1nose, on 04/08/2009, -0/+7It would be even more embarrassing for California if we can get Utah to allow gay marriage.
- EricSchC1, on 04/08/2009, -1/+8You do realize that homosexuality and gay marriage isn't something that only affects/appeals to the left? There are many gay people in all walks of life. Furthermore, no one, least of all you, "owns" the definition of marriage. Marriage isn't/wasn't always about forming a loving, lifelong bond w/one other adult of the opposite sex...hell, it still isn't only about that! Fact of the matter is that the first wheel wasn't round, in much the same way all other things change, so you can either get on the bus or be left behind w/just your archaic and unchanging views on the world and humanity.
- Snyz, on 04/08/2009, -0/+5What do you have against squares? :(
- billricardi, on 04/08/2009, -3/+9Just waiting on the Fed to pass an immigration equality law now. It's great that states are coming around, but until the Fed does, a lot of people are either being kept apart or forced to live overseas. Some good steps forward happened this week though, so there is hope.
- TheDHC, on 04/08/2009, -1/+7Or it will give them hope.
- banderwocky, on 04/08/2009, -2/+8Does this mean that the right-wing nut cases will want to destroy Iowa and it's liberal gay agenda?
- FredFredrickson, on 04/08/2009, -0/+6Hate to break it to you, inactive, but there are in fact, straight people out there who support equal rights for gays. I'm one of them.
- doremon313, on 04/08/2009, -2/+84 down 46 to go!
- FredFredrickson, on 04/08/2009, -0/+5I can understand their point. I feel the same pain whenever I have to acknowledge these knuckle dragging bigots as fellow human beings.
- EricSchC1, on 04/08/2009, -0/+4What "brainwashing" takes place when other animals engage in homosexuality then??? Clearly, you've been brainwashed by the religious-right agenda.
- cowtown, on 04/08/2009, -0/+4Yeah, it probably just means the State Supreme Court would need to see a State Constitutional Amendment before saying that gay marriage could be illegal. I suspect the only LASTING impact of this decision will be another data point in favor of recognizing that there is no DEFAULT position that consenting adults can be denied equal protection. Make the backwards hillbillies and hayseeds of this country (but not he progressive hillbillies and hayseeds. They're cool.) vote for their bigotry, so we can all see it and repeal it as soon as a few more of them die.
- leatherscot, on 04/09/2009, -0/+3Ignore o0lIl0o - Hes just an idiot that gets banned from here periodically - he wont be around for long
- Lazydriver, on 04/08/2009, -0/+3DO IT! Dammit, a good investment if I ever knew one!
- tgjerusalem, on 04/10/2009, -0/+3... for real? You think gay marriage rights aren't about gay people wanting to get married, it's about devious traitors trying to destroy the US from within?
You're either *****, or you've reached "communist infiltration of our precious bodily fluids" level crazy. - leatherscot, on 04/09/2009, -0/+2@o0lIl0o
Its been a long time - I wonder how long you will last without being banned this time! - Diggnabbit, on 04/08/2009, -0/+3Ah, I see.
So you think there is a "homosexual agenda" that is trying to convince straight people that homosexuality is better than heterosexuality and trying to convert people to homosexuality?
I should have realized that you were crazy. - Greengoo, on 04/08/2009, -1/+4Dugg for enthusiasm.
- koko775, on 04/08/2009, -0/+2Embarrassing for the people of California, no. Or, about half of us, anyways. Embarrassing for the politicians, I certainly hope so. I think it's a good thing that other states are moving forward; hopefully California will eventually get it right because of them.
- secrity, on 04/08/2009, -0/+2The problem is that the CA supremes ruled to allow prop h8 to go on the ballot. They could have stopped ALL of this prop h8 *****.
- Diggnabbit, on 04/08/2009, -0/+2So, show me where there is a large porton of society pushing for people to engage in gay sex. There isn't one. Gay people are not trying to make other people be or act gay.
Oh wait, there IS "a large portion of society pushing for people to eat as much fatty food as it wants," it's called the food and restaurant industry. How much money does Mcdonald's spend on advertising a year?
Or, did you really mean "pushing for people to [have the right to] eat as much fatty food as it wants," which would be the actual equivalent to gay rights movements? Because, you know, we already have that right and cherish it as part of our liberties, even if it is bad for us. - ChaosProfessor, on 04/08/2009, -0/+2http://www.themonastery.org/?destination=colorOrdi ...
- UselessTrivia, on 04/08/2009, -0/+2Well...their courts are basically as progressive as California, as they determined pretty much what California determined last summer...it was unconstitutional to deny marriage to gays.
The same thing will happen in Iowa as happens everywhere else: Someone will put up a ballot measure to amend the constitution to define marriage as one man and one woman, thus rendering the "unconstitutional" argument null.
There are (I think) 23 states with such constitutional amendments. Those will be very difficult to overturn, but not impossible. - novenator, on 04/09/2009, -0/+2I guess I deserve that. I am a quick leaner though and wil try to spel better next time.
- Diggnabbit, on 04/08/2009, -0/+2He DID show that it was a stupid argument. You said that homosexuality was bad because "our bodies were not designed for it." He showed that that is a stupid argument because we do all kinds of things that our bodies were not designed for. (The fact that you can list all kinds of dangerous things we can do does not have anything to do with what our bodies were designed for.)
Then, you tried to shift your argument in your second post to "weakens the human race" which you followed up with your list of dangerous things that humans can do, presumably because those are the kinds of things that "weaken the human race." Aside from the fact that those dangerous activities probably strengthen the human race (through natural selection, especially for non-reproducing homosexuals), the idea that because unprotected male-male anal sex can transmit AIDS that makes all homosexuality wrong is still ridiculous. Again, we do a whole lot of things that are dangerous (drive in cars, eat fatty foods, drink alcohol, etc. etc.) but that does not make those things wrong or regressive. - UselessTrivia, on 04/08/2009, -0/+2It's not a bad idea, really. Iowa despite being a "blue state" on paper, is pretty conservative. There will be a lack of places accepting gay marriages. I think you can become a unitarian minister by filling out a form online for free.
- secrity, on 04/08/2009, -0/+2I forget who it is, but is is definitely not Unitarian.
- secrity, on 04/08/2009, -0/+2There is a large number of ministers that support gay marriage.
- Diggnabbit, on 04/08/2009, -0/+2I know I shouldn't even engage with you or feed the trolls, but how does homosexuality weaken the human race?
Your first statement was that it was wrong because we werent' designed for it. Johnnysaucepn definitively showed that that's a stupid argument. So, you shifted to a vague claim that it "weakens the human race." I'd really love to see some evidence for that that doesn't depend on the presupposition that homosexuality is bad because it's "unnatural" (i.e. a re-statement of your first ridiculous claim). -
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