Coincidences are funny. Why, just yesterday morning I was remembering Mr. Bush’s great edict from his July press conference: “I believe marriage is between a man and a woman and I believe we ought to codify that one way or the other and we have lawyers looking at the best way to do that.” And then a few minutes later I found this story about an Iowa judge’s divorce decree for two women. Goodness, if he’s giving them a divorce, he must be saying they were married.
The article goes on:
“We believe the judge exceeded his authority,” said Chuck Hurley, president of the Iowa Family Policy Center, a family advocacy group. Hurley and other conservatives fear the judge’s decree, which refers to the union as a marriage, could be a step toward legitimizing same-sex unions, which are not permitted under an Iowa law passed in 1997.
Those Iowans just have to be first for everything, don’t they?
