State legislative leaders vow no action on gay marriage
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Iowa Independent: Same-sex marriage will not be an issue in next year’s legislative session, said the highest-ranking Democrats from both chambers of the Iowa legislature. “Our goal is, hopefully for a long time, to do nothing on this issue,” Iowa House Speaker Pat Murphy, D-Dubuque, said. “To let people know that on April 3 there was a ruling, and on April 27 there were a lot of people who said the end of the world was coming. Well, it’s a month later, and the sun is still shining, the grass is still green and people are enjoying their lives and living in more dignity because of what’s happened.”
Murphy and Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal, D-Council Bluffs, spoke Thursday night at a reception in their honor hosted by One Iowa, the state’s largest gay rights organization. The day the Iowa Supreme Court overturned the state’s ban on same-sex marriage, Gronstal and Murphy issued a joint statement praising the decision and closed the door on legislative action to overturn it. Over the course of the session’s final weeks, both men repeatedly beat back attempts to push through a constitutional amendment overturning the court’s decision.
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