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发帖数: 4174 | 1 Posted on Advocate.com March 16, 2011
Hundreds Rally for Marriage Ban in Iowa
A rally for a constitutional amendment to ban marriage equality drew
hundreds of people to the Iowa state capitol on Tuesday.
By Advocate.com Editors
Some 500 supporters of a constitutional amendment to ban marriage equality
rallied Tuesday at the Iowa capitol.
According to The Des Moines Register, the purpose of the event was to prompt
the senate to consider the proposal, which already passed the Republican-
controlled house. The measure, which would repeal the marriage equality
established by a state supreme court ruling in 2009, needs to pass two
consecutive sessions of the legislature before it could head to the ballot.
Senate majority leader Michael Gronstal, a Democrat, has vowed not to take
up the proposal in his chamber.
“The hourlong rally drew an enthusiastic crowd from throughout the state
decked out in red shirts and jackets, the color used by LUV Iowa, a group
backing the amendment,” reports the Register. “Some toted signs, such as
‘Man + Woman = Marriage’ and ‘God is not a Liar.’ They shouted, ‘Amen,
’ in agreement with the event's speakers.”
The keynote speaker for the antigay activists was Roy Moore, former chief
justice of the Alabama supreme court, who was removed in 2003 for refusing
to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the state courthouse.
A smaller number of marriage equality advocates held signs in the distance,
and afterward, about 60 of them lobbied lawmakers inside the capitol, the
Register reports. |
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