Wow a year of marriage equality and my hetero marriage is still in tact

[rurallib]

Were the repubs lying to me?

[Bluzmann57]

1. What?! Repukes and fundies (repetitive) lie?!

Now we all know that would never happen. Good grief man, what are you smoking? There is no way the repukes lie. They just say "misspeak". See, that's different. Misspeaking is, um, er, well, never mind.

[progressoid]

2. And dammit, we didn't get nearly as many gay tourist dollars that Steve King promised us.

Iowa draws a trickle of marriages

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When a flood of marriage applicants was predicted one that would have almost doubled the state's annual volume of marriage licenses concerns about workload arose.

In the end, the first year of licensing for same-sex couples turned out to be a little like March in like a lion, out like a lamb. After initial crowds at some recorders' offices, as well as extraordinary media attention for the normally under-the-radar recorders, all is business as usual.

In the first seven months of marriages for gay and lesbian couples, 1,783 same-sex marriages were recorded with the state, according to the Iowa Department of Public Health.

The true number could be larger. Iowa does not require marriage license applicants to designate their sex on the forms that are filed with the state. About 900 married couples who filed certificates with the state from April 27 through Dec. 31 did not fill in that optional part of the application, said Jill France, chief of the Iowa Bureau of Health Statistics.

But, even if the number of same-sex marriages is 900 larger, that's a far cry from the 57,640 in three years predicted by the Williams Institute of the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law. The group predicted 2,917 of Iowa's gay couples and about 54,723 out-of-state couples would marry during that period.

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About 739 of Iowa's same-sex couples were married in 2009. At that pace, same-sex couples living in Iowa could come close to the 2,917 marriages in three years predicted by the UCLA study. But the out-of-state numbers are nowhere close to the predictions.

The state numbers show 1,044 same-sex couples from outside Iowa came to the state to be married, most coming from states that border Iowa Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri and Nebraska.

... http://www.omaha.com/article/20100403/NEWS01/704039861

[Blue Gardener]

3. No plagues, no earthquakes, etc. either

I thought we were supposed to be punished by gawd for allowing gay marriage. Huh. I guess that was untrue as well.

[47of74]

4. And no rampaging hoards of gerbils, beavers, or any other animals

[Rambis]

5. Our neighbors marriage didn't survive it

spent over a hour one night trying to convince me same sex marriage would ruin trad marriage. I'm still married you are getting divorced. You know me, the guy that you said had no morals, no values, no religious beliefs and was quote "in denial of the laws of nature"


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