Greater generation
While blocking an attempt to overturn Iowa's legalization of gay marriage, Iowa Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal made a crucial point: The debate on letting gays marry is over — even if an older generation, represented by the likes of Eagle Forum's Gayle Ruzicka, Utah Sen. Chris Buttars and conservative coaster LaVar Christensen doesn't know it yet.
Gronstal quoted his daughter Kate's response to a group of older Iowa voters who were agitating for a ban on gay marriages:
Gronstal quoted his daughter Kate's response to a group of older Iowa voters who were agitating for a ban on gay marriages:
You guys don't understand. You've already lost. My generation doesn't care.Gronstal said his daughter taught him something:
That's what I see. I see a bunch of people who merely want to profess their love for each other and want state law to recognize that. Is that so wrong?Hat tip to Bryan Schott at Utah Pulse.
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Thank god we have Iowa to show us the path out of the dark ages we've been living in.
How long will it be before our buttarsaurus is finally extinct? Before Gayle Ruzicka is gone, except from wax museums with exhibits on segregation, slavery and the period before women could vote?
We owe a great deal of gratitude to Iowa and to their representatives.
We need to put this question to rest and resolve to treat all equally.
Simple and profound
"We need to put this question to rest and resolve to treat all equally"
Yeah, all except the polygs. What they are doing is really against the law. But who cares anything about the laws anyway?
I have been waiting for the Trib to have something on the subject, this is the first since Iowa.
Now does Utah have to acknowledge the marriages or can they discriminate as is their desire? Can a couple say, Bill and Jim fly on a special deal on Southwest to Des Moines (Saturday stayover required) come back Monday, and somehow or another get legal recognition in Utah, say retroactive to when they got married on Saturday morning?
Or is the C of LDS going to covertly manage to have a law passed in Iowa and have the marriage voided, and at the same time have a law passed that Bill and Jim can no longer travel on Southwest to Iowa, Vermont and the others, to protect Utah from the gay marriages exploding in plain sight of the Temple?
Or have they grown up?
Seems like the Utah majority is being tested daily, the revelation must be imminent, kind of funny how these revelatories are prompted.
Please, Keep Tahoe Blue.
You don't have to go to Iowa to hear this kind of message. On Feb. 13, 2009 I interviewed Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr., who had just announced his support of same-sex civil unions.Our discussion was wide-ranging. Here is one of the statements I extrapolated for the City Weekly column I wrote:
Then, speaking like the father he is of young adults, Huntsman pushed the issue further. Bigotry toward gays is slowly, ever so slowly, melting away. “Especially among the younger generation, there is much more room for understanding and tremendous room for discourse” on the matter of gay rights, he said.
I thought it was one of the guv's finer moments.
How old is Kate? There are still those under 30 (like myself) who are just as bigoted as ever and likely to remain so for the next 40 years.
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