Hooray for Iowa!

[inbhirnis]

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?

Comments

[urbear]

That's very similar to MA's amendment process. We have that to thank for the state of gay marriage in MA today... the amendment process is slow and requires a great deal of support in the legislature. It never got as far as a referendum, and even if it had, it would have been long enough after the start of gay marriage that most of the shock would have died down.

I don't get CA's rules. A constitution should not be that easy to change.

[furrbear.livejournal.com]

Yeah, CA's Constitution will start to look like TX's; but for a different reason - In TX, damn near any and everything takes a Constitutional Amendment.

[inbhirnis.livejournal.com]

It's ridiculous here - it takes 2/3 to approve a tax increase, but it only takes 50%+1 to take someone's rights away...