Is Same Sex Marriage a Possibility for Iowa?
KIMT.com Mason City
KIMT did an interview with DFIA Founding Member Darrell Lewis
The state of marriage: it's a hot topic in just about any state.
Darrell
Lewis, advocacy coordinator for Parents, Friends & Family of
Lesbians and Gays, tells KIMT NewsChannel Three, “It should be an
individual state's decision and I think we're gonna see states all over
the United States take different positions.”
Missouri
is the most recent state to take a position. About seventy percent of
voters there are in favor of banning same sex marriage in the state.
Other states are set to vote on the issue in the next couple of months. Iowa isn't one of them.
Darrell
says, “Iowa already has a law that prevents same sex marriage and
there's no movement afoot to change that law in Iowa. So it, for the
most part it's not an issue in Iowa. Nobody's proposing that same sex
marriage be permitted and most Iowa leaders think it's an error to mess
with the constitution.”
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Blog For Iowa 
The Register ran a bit in Borsellino's column:
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040806/LIFE01/408060347/0/OPINION01
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Panora native Tobin Wirt got married this summer, and his hometown paper – the Guthrie County Vedette – carried the announcement, with a photo.
Wirt lives in Massachusetts, and he married Robert King .
Scott Gonzales is the owner and editor of the paper, and he said this was a first. He didn't have a problem with it because Wirt got the info in within 90 days of the wedding “and that's our policy.”
According to the announcement:
“Wirt is the son of Keith and the late Betty Wirt of Panora and is a 1973 graduate of Panora-Linden High and a 1979 graduate of UNI. King is the son of Lawrence and the late Jean King of Duxbury, Mass., and a 1980 graduate of the University of Massachusetts. The pair has operated restaurants on Cape Cod for two decades and recently sold their latest venture and are enjoying some time off.”
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Mr. Wirt posts on our “Hawkeye Report” site as “Grant Wood”. Stop by and wish him congratulations!
http://iowa.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?fid=811&tid=37783049&sid=&style=2
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