Shame on them for wanting to legislate bias and inequality. I'm ashamed this is happening in my state!

Shame on you Sarah for not caring if the people have a say or not...whether you are for it or against it that is what democracy is all about. Just wait until the next time a group of judges decree something you are fundamentally against...something tells me you would want to vote on it. But perhaps you would just stand by and except being silenced.

Here are more facts relevant to this issue. John Landon paid Justin Arnold thousands of dollars as his campaign manager for the local 2012 Republican primary. Arnold is the editor for The Conservative Reader: http://iowa.theconservativereader.com/. Landon finished a distant third in that June 5, 2012 primary with half of the votes of winner Jim Robidoux, but he was given the nomination by a group of ten cronies, close associates, campaign workers, and campaign contributors who had managed to get on the local Republican Central Committee. 21 members of the local Republican Central Committee were to select the nominee of the party because primary winner Robidoux earned 34.16% of the vote, just a few votes short of the 35% required by state law for the automatic nomination of the party. Landon earned 17% of the vote of the people (Tea Party activist Matt DeVries earned 29% and had nine cronies on the committee of 21). Robidoux refused to put cronies on a committee that could subvert the vote of the people and overturn the results of the primary, the plan of the Landon and DeVries campaigns.

At the February 2, 2013 Legislative Forum at Neveln in Ankeny, Robidoux asked Representatives Landon and Koester and Senator Whitver to introduce a bill that would name the winner of the primary as the party nominee and remove the arbitrary 35% percent threshold. In the Des Moines Register in September 2012, Senator Whitver stated that it is “irresponsible” for a delegate to vote for the third-place vote getter in the electoral college, but that is exactly what happened in Ankeny in the House 37 selection process. Landon, Koester, and Whitver have either refused to consider submitting a bill that would name the winner of the primary as the nominee or have clearly stated “no” to this request by constituent Robidoux.

In summary, then, Koester, Landon, and Arnold don’t want seven judges setting marriage policy, but it’s okay for ten local Republican activists to overturn the results of a $12,500 taxpayer-funded primary representing almost 21,000 voters in order to name their buddy Landon the as nominee of the party. Koester, Landon, and Arnold call for democracy in the name of marriage, but refuse to support the vote of the people to name the party nominee. These are facts.

Jim, I agree, you seemed to be the clear winner of the first round. Whatever else happened, you did not go on, and these two did, it seems. What does this have to do-now, except sour grapes, with this issue? If you had won, would you have been a party to this resolution? Whichever way you are, well, it seems people of some states here in the US, had the right to vote on this issue, and we were not allowed that here, thanks to our supreme voice. Ok or not, well, bringing up those trying to change what is done? Good luck, but still some fight...
P.S., do you still teach our children here? If so, whatever opinions and issues you have, well, I have to admit, too many teachers just cannot resist walking that fine line, be it this, or the hs split, or etc.with how they try to engage our students now. Never an easy job, esp. these days.

After being married for 58 years this August, I'm certainly not for anything except marriage between a man an a woman. I do not care what the Supreme Court said. Next we'll be putting this in our school textbooks. Give us the priviledge of voting on this issue in Iowa and whoever wins I'll be satisified with.

Here's an idea. If you don't like gay marriage don't get one. Otherwise keep your nose out of other's bedrooms.

So simple.