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rurallib

(63,207 posts) Wed Apr 3, 2019, 11:46 AM Apr 2019

10th anniversary of Varnum v. Brien ( marriage equality decision in Iowa)

April 3rd, 2009

I still remember where I was when I heard the news. I was very, very skeptical. Iowa & gay marriage?

It was kind of a magically strange day.

But Iowa's Pope, Bob VanderPlaats and his band of haters has been on a ten year vengeance tear doing anything and everything to wreck Iowa's court system and take control of it. Thus we are sitting here watching Trumpublicans in the Iowa Legislature take a sledge hammer to the court system that is often considered to be one of the fairest for selecting judges.

There isn't anything the Trumpublicans won't wreck to have their way.

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10th anniversary of Varnum v. Brien ( marriage equality decision in Iowa) (Original Post) rurallib Apr 2019 OP

Louie Gohmert and the "Out Of State Hate Bus" arrived soon after and we were diminished. IADEMO2004 Apr 2019 #1

I remember being so proud to be an Iowan that day Cairycat Apr 2019 #2

I posted my recollections over at blogforiowa last weekend rurallib Apr 2019 #3

IADEMO2004

(5,885 posts)

1. Louie Gohmert and the "Out Of State Hate Bus" arrived soon after and we were diminished.

Reply to rurallib (Original post)

Wed Apr 3, 2019, 12:06 PM

Apr 2019

Irrational fear and hate in elections since then.

Cairycat

(1,761 posts)

2. I remember being so proud to be an Iowan that day

Reply to rurallib (Original post)

Wed Apr 3, 2019, 02:08 PM

Apr 2019

It gave the rest of the country the message that same sex marriage wasn't just a coastal elites kind of thing, but heartland and mainstream.

I don't think the Trumpturds are going to have the final say.

rurallib

(63,207 posts)

3. I posted my recollections over at blogforiowa last weekend

Reply to Cairycat (Reply #2)

Wed Apr 3, 2019, 03:02 PM

Apr 2019

https://blogforiowa.com/2019/03/31/do-you-remember-april-3-2009/

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