Slog - Comments on Quick! Get Tim Burgess to Iowa! http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/quick_get_tim_burgess_to_iowa A court in Des Moines has ruled that gays and lesbians must be allowed to marry--clearly Iowa needs some of Tim's brand of "moral persuasion"!... Copyright 2008 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:44:50 -0800 Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:01:19 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Horace The comments thread on the article regarding this issue in the Des Moines Register is, predictably, going bat-shit crazy:
http://www.dmregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070830/NEWS/70830044/1001&lead=1

And it's only going to get better!

]]> Horace http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/quick_get_tim_burgess_to_iowa#c793912 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/quick_get_tim_burgess_to_iowa#c793912 Homo Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:09:59 -0800 Comment by Original Andrew Now all of those hot, sweaty, muscular, corn-fed Iowan men will instantly lose interest in women and start riding me like a mechanical bull.

And all because of this ruling. Some days it's great to be alive.

]]> Original Andrew http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/quick_get_tim_burgess_to_iowa#c793919 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/quick_get_tim_burgess_to_iowa#c793919 Homo Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:15:27 -0800 Comment by monkey And queue the "activist judge" rhetoric in 4... 3... 2... 1...

]]> monkey http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/quick_get_tim_burgess_to_iowa#c793928 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/quick_get_tim_burgess_to_iowa#c793928 Homo Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:21:44 -0800 Comment by inkweary Wow, Iowa justice spanks Washington on equal rights, who'da thought? Isn't also a red state?
I'm reeling.

]]> inkweary http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/quick_get_tim_burgess_to_iowa#c793972 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/quick_get_tim_burgess_to_iowa#c793972 Homo Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:52:48 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle About time.

They owe us.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/quick_get_tim_burgess_to_iowa#c793999 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/quick_get_tim_burgess_to_iowa#c793999 Homo Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:13:49 -0800 Comment by and whodathunk that iowa judges were more progressive than in WA or NY

]]> and http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/quick_get_tim_burgess_to_iowa#c794024 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/quick_get_tim_burgess_to_iowa#c794024 Homo Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:36:30 -0800 Comment by kelper #2
two words- sure fire - some fine men - well, three ... listen up

weed beer skinny dipping

four words - will keep you busy all summer

]]> kelper http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/quick_get_tim_burgess_to_iowa#c794048 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/quick_get_tim_burgess_to_iowa#c794048 Homo Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:56:15 -0800 Comment by Kat Dammit. That's cooler than CALIFORNIA. *shakes fist at Schwarzenegger*

I can't believe Firefox's spell check, corrected my spelling of Schwarzenegger.

Anyway, not to put out a fire with gasoline, but I thought Dan might want this for "being straight doesn't make you a good parent" chronicles.

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/14011324/detail.html

]]> Kat http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/quick_get_tim_burgess_to_iowa#c794062 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/quick_get_tim_burgess_to_iowa#c794062 Homo Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:08:19 -0800 Comment by BassSinger I worry about this in election year politics. I know that GWB's win is still blamed on the anti-gay "values" voters. I don't want some crap head Republican winning because Iowa has same sex marriage. Also, I don't want to move to Iowa. Come on Washington or Maryland or California or some place that isn't a fly over.

Think about the case making it to the Iowa Supreme Court when just around the Iowa caucus.

Of course, when will there not be an election coming up!

]]> BassSinger http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/quick_get_tim_burgess_to_iowa#c794142 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/quick_get_tim_burgess_to_iowa#c794142 Homo Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:24:54 -0800 Comment by lawrence clark I don't buy it. Something is wrong when Iowa allows gay marriage second in the Union. No way. Nuh, uh... Ain't gonna happen.

]]> lawrence clark http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/quick_get_tim_burgess_to_iowa#c794245 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/quick_get_tim_burgess_to_iowa#c794245 Homo Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:11:24 -0800 Comment by Toby Maybe its wrong of me... but when I think of all the poor conservative, same-sex-marriage fear mongers frothing at the mouth because now Bob and Fred down the street can get legally married, it puts a song in my heart. :)

]]> Toby http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/quick_get_tim_burgess_to_iowa#c794285 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/quick_get_tim_burgess_to_iowa#c794285 Homo Fri, 31 Aug 2007 07:33:17 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV Number 6: Judges here are as progressive as in Iowa, that is, until you get to the Supreme Court.

At least two Superior Court judges upheld gay marriage in Washington, unfortunately, their decisions were overturned on appeal.

Iowa isn't done with this issue, either.

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/quick_get_tim_burgess_to_iowa#c794547 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/quick_get_tim_burgess_to_iowa#c794547 Homo Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:01:19 -0800