If the measure becomes law, it would conflict with the Supreme Court’s 2015 landmark decision to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide, coupled with Congress’ bipartisan passage of the Respect for Marriage Act late last year.
March 1, 2023, 12:48 AM UTCNearly eight years after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage and several months after Congress codified gay nuptials, Iowa lawmakers proposed banning such unions in their state constitution.
Iowa Rep. Brad Sherman, one of the bill’s eight co-sponsors, said in an email that the joint resolution"would take several years to accomplish." Several Iowa Democrats were quick to criticize the proposal, saying it would take the state — which became one of the firsts to legalize same-sex marriage in 2009 — ““No, @IowaGOP, we will not be going back to the days when committed, loving same-sex couples don’t have the same right to marriage equality as everyone else,”
“The state of Iowa also recognizes the deep historical and religious roots that uniformly defined and understood marriage to be the union between one male and female,” the subsequent bill’s text states. “Therefore, no resident of Iowa shall be compelled, coerced, or forced to recognize any same-sex unions or ceremonies as marriage, notwithstanding any laws to the
"If they want to call their relationship a marriage, they are free to do so; that is freedom," Sherman said in an email."But, by the same token, people who do not define same-sex unions as marriage must not be forced to do so."
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