Hooray for Iowa!
Apr. 3rd, 2009 07:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Their Supreme Court just ruled in favor of same sex marriage.
Now - I wonder if Iowa is also hampered by a political system where a popular vote of 50%+1 vote can strip these newly won rights away?
Now - I wonder if Iowa is also hampered by a political system where a popular vote of 50%+1 vote can strip these newly won rights away?
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Date: 2009-04-03 05:10 pm (UTC)I don't get CA's rules. A constitution should not be that easy to change.
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Date: 2009-04-03 04:08 pm (UTC)But I don't understand the complexities of your legislative system at all.
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Date: 2009-04-03 08:41 pm (UTC)The problem here in Bulgaria is just the opposite - our Constitution defines marriage as "a voluntary union between a man and a woman", and a change to the constitution involves a complicated time-consuming procedure and a 3/4 majority in Parliament three times on different days. So the struggle now is for the civil union type of thing to be introduced into the next version of the Family Code.
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Date: 2009-04-03 09:36 pm (UTC)If I had my way everyone would only be able to have a civil marriage and churches would only be able to perform blessing ceremonies and they would be free to pick and choose who they wanted to offer them to.
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Date: 2009-04-03 08:39 pm (UTC)http://www.towleroad.com/2009/04/openly-gay-iowa-state-senator-matt-mccoy-iowa-will-not-go-back-1.html