Interesting reading: summary of Iowa same-sex marriage decision

[cnoocy]

Hi! I just wanted to point out the very readable summary of today's ruling from Iowa, especially pages 4-6 (of 6), where the court addresses the government's arguments in favor of a ban on same-sex marriage. Many of them take the form "whether or not X is a worthwhile goal, there's no evidence that excluding gays and lesbians from civil marriage would help X."

Comments

[leighjen.livejournal.com]

That was some nice clean logic there. Well done. The first bit about how saying it is important to protect the tradition of marriage just leads to a circular argument made me smile. And I liked how they added the "you didn't mention it, but we thought we would bring it up..." argument against religion in regards to marriage as a civil act.

[lapak.livejournal.com]

That summary is excellent.

That ruling is excellent.

Iowa has BECOME more excellent.

[kamamamama.livejournal.com]

I am so happy!