Nearly eight years after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage and several months after Congress codified gay nuptials, Iowa legislators proposed banning such unions in their state constitution.
“In accordance with the laws of nature and nature’s God, the state of Iowa recognizes the definition of marriage to be the solemnized union between one human biological male and one human biological female,” says theIf the measure becomes law, it would conflict with the Supreme Court’s 2015 landmark decision to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide, Obergefell v. Hodges, and Congress’of the Respect for Marriage Act late last year.
State 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.""Should the people of Iowa vote for such an amendment, laws would have to be adjusted to make laws fair for all," he said.
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