Saturday, September 01, 2007

Gay Marriage Back On Hold In Iowa

Only 20 people got to get their marriage licenses in Iowa before they shut down applications to get them pending an appeal on the issue of gay marriage. Only 1 couple according to the article managed to get married.

The marriage license approval process normally takes three business days, but Fritz and McQuillan took advantage of a loophole that allows couples to skip the waiting period if they pay a $5 fee and get a judge to sign a waiver.

Friday morning, the Rev. Mark Stringer declared the two Iowa State University students legally married in a wedding on the Unitarian minister's front lawn in Des Moines.

"This is it. We're married. I love you," Fritz told McQuillan after the ceremony.

Fritz explained their hurry: "We're both in our undergrad programs and we thought maybe we'd put it off until applying at graduate school, but when this opportunity came up, we thought maybe we wouldn't get the opportunity again."

Apparently they have nothing better to do or bigger problems to fix than gays getting married in Iowa. How I envy a state that has it's shit together so much that now the only real "issues" on the agenda is poking their noses into other law abiding citizens lives. (that's sarcasm that you smell there)


Travis

travis@rightwinglunatic.com

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