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Apr. 3rd, 2009 10:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greenie_breizhSo, things are moving on the marriage front!
First of all, Sweden now allows same-sex marriages. The news is a couple of days old but I wanted to see how things in the U.S. would go. Sweden brings the number of countries where same-sex marriage is legal to 7: we have Belgium, Spain, South Africa, the Netherlands, Norway and Canada. (Um, woah. I totally missed Norway passing a gender-neutral marriage bill. Way to go.) Massachussetts and Connecticut are the only two U.S. states to allow same-sex marriages.
Speaking of the U.S., as expected the same-sex marriage bill passed in the Vermont House of Representatives. But it only has 95 positive votes for now (apparently they're revoting today?) and it would need 100 to override the power of veto that the governor is probably going to use, so chances are same-sex marriage is not happening in VT just yet.
But the big news today is that the Iowa Supreme Court has declared it is unconstitutional not to allow same-sex couples to marry. Not only that, but the ruling was unanimous. RIGHT ON, IOWA. I knew I loved you for a reason. I'm not sure what this means in practical terms yet - when same-sex couples will effectively be allowed to get a license, and like in California this most likely means we will see a push for a constitutional amendment from the Republicans in the state, but since the Supreme Court denied that civil unions would be equal (the ruling calls them "suspicious"), in all likelihood couples will get to marry for a while before anyone can attempt to take that away.
In the meanwhile, the California Supreme Court is supposed to give out their ruling on Prop 8 within 2 months. This should be interesting.
On this happy Iowan note, I am off to mark papers (of which I have WAY too many >.>). At least I have a snuggly cat with me...
First of all, Sweden now allows same-sex marriages. The news is a couple of days old but I wanted to see how things in the U.S. would go. Sweden brings the number of countries where same-sex marriage is legal to 7: we have Belgium, Spain, South Africa, the Netherlands, Norway and Canada. (Um, woah. I totally missed Norway passing a gender-neutral marriage bill. Way to go.) Massachussetts and Connecticut are the only two U.S. states to allow same-sex marriages.
Speaking of the U.S., as expected the same-sex marriage bill passed in the Vermont House of Representatives. But it only has 95 positive votes for now (apparently they're revoting today?) and it would need 100 to override the power of veto that the governor is probably going to use, so chances are same-sex marriage is not happening in VT just yet.
But the big news today is that the Iowa Supreme Court has declared it is unconstitutional not to allow same-sex couples to marry. Not only that, but the ruling was unanimous. RIGHT ON, IOWA. I knew I loved you for a reason. I'm not sure what this means in practical terms yet - when same-sex couples will effectively be allowed to get a license, and like in California this most likely means we will see a push for a constitutional amendment from the Republicans in the state, but since the Supreme Court denied that civil unions would be equal (the ruling calls them "suspicious"), in all likelihood couples will get to marry for a while before anyone can attempt to take that away.
In the meanwhile, the California Supreme Court is supposed to give out their ruling on Prop 8 within 2 months. This should be interesting.
On this happy Iowan note, I am off to mark papers (of which I have WAY too many >.>). At least I have a snuggly cat with me...
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Date: 2009-04-03 10:37 pm (UTC)