Previously, I posted that the Iowa House voted in favour of Joint Resolution 6, 62-37, the resolution now headed to the Senate where Senate Majority Leader Michael Gronstal has promoted to veto a vote. The intent of the resolution is to nullify the State Supreme Court ruling of March, 2009 that found the state same sex marriage ban unconstitutional, Joint Resolution 6 allowing voters to choose to ban same marriage, domestic partnerships, and civil unions. Monday, the day before the vote, 19 year old University of Iowa engineering student Zach Wahls addressed the House, saying “Actually, I was raised by a gay couple and I’m doing pretty well.” Wahls argued that repealing the Iowa Supreme Court ruling would constitute the first time in state history to “codified discrimination into our constitution.” And although his biological mother and her partner married two years ago, he says that while an amendment defining marriage as that existing between one man and one woman will be an of premeditated prejudice and hinder his parent’s legal rights, it will not tear their family apart. “My family isn’t so different from yours,” says Wahls. “After all, your family doesn’t derive its sense of worth from being told by the state, ‘You’re married, congratulations.’ No. The sense of family comes from the commitment we make to each other – to work through the hard times so we can enjoy the good ones. It comes from the love that binds us. That’s what makes a family. So what you’re voting on is not to change us.”
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