Gay marriage ruling prompts move against Iowa justices

Dan82 · Aug 6, 2010

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/ar...age-ruling-prompts-move-against-Iowa-justices

Iowans who opposed last year's state Supreme Court decision to allow gay marriage have launched a campaign to vote three justices out of office.

Common Sense PAC is the first formal attempt to unseat the three justices who face a retention vote on Nov. 2: David Baker, Michael Streit and Chief Justice Marsha Ternus.

The organization formed in May in response to the 2009 Iowa Supreme Court decision. But campaign organizers said their concern extends beyond the same-sex marriage ruling, to what they view as an out-of-check judiciary.

"We decided we've been sitting on the sidelines for way too long," said Dennis Guth, a Klemme farmer and the group's spokesman. "We needed to get involved."

Baker, Streit and Ternus all joined the unanimous 2009 marriage ruling. The other four justices are not on this year's ballot.

Steve Davis, an Iowa Judicial Branch spokesman, said the justices were not available for interviews.

Several Iowa law professors who studied the ruling say the decision was politically divisive, but legally sound. The ruling stemmed from a lawsuit filed by six same-sex couples, after the Polk County recorder denied their requests for marriage licenses. Polk County District Judge Robert Hanson sided with the couples, and the case was appealed to the Iowa Supreme Court.

Black plywood signs made by the group appeared at least 10 times last week along the Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa, from Sioux City to Dubuque. The signs were designed to look like a ballot, with red check marks in the "No" column for each justice...

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Steve712 · Aug 6, 2010

"We decided we've been sitting on the sidelines for way too long," said Dennis Guth, a Klemme farmer and the group's spokesman. "We needed to get involved."
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I'd prefer if he just kept to farming and regurgitating dogma privately.

Just Adam · Aug 6, 2010

Steve712 said: ↑

"We decided we've been sitting on the sidelines for way too long," said Dennis Guth, a Klemme farmer and the group's spokesman. "We needed to get involved."
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I'd prefer if he just kept to farming and regurgitating dogma privately.
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or they could go die in a hole ...just a thought

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