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?

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[inbhirnis.livejournal.com]

Deciding things like this by popular vote is ridiculous - but that's the system we have here in CA. Hopefully, the 'Proposition' process will be reformed one day to make it a lot more difficult.

[tilia-tomentosa.livejournal.com]

[Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] already more or less explained your system to me.

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.