I feel like this quote from Dennis Johnson, the former Iowa Solicitor General of Iowa, pretty much sums it up:
"We have always been ahead of our neighbors in fighting for civil rights, and now is the time for our state to take the next step in ending inequality."
Here's a story from Lambda Legal, about the 17 friend-of-the court briefs that flooded the Iowa Supreme Court this past week on behalf of 6 gay couples seeking to get married.
Here's the DI's story.
Here are just a few of the signatories, in addition to the more than 200 faith leaders and Iowa Law School's own Angela Onwuachi-Willig, that I saw while scanning the articles:
Joy Corning, former Lt. Governor of Iowa
Salley Pederson, former Lt. Governor of Iowa
Dr. Kevin Mumford, History Professor at the University of Iowa
Dr. Dianne McBrien, Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Randall Wilson, Legal Director at the ACLU of Iowa Foundation
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