2010 November 2

Three Judges Removed From Iowa Supreme Court – Voted For Same-Sex Marriage

 

Christian conservatives led a successful campaign to remove three judges from the Iowa Supreme Court by popular vote on this day. The court had unanimously ruled same-sex marriage legal on April 3, 2009.

A later effort to remove a fourth judge in November 2012 failed, and same-sex marriage remained legal in the state.

The November 2012 elections, in fact, marked an unprecedented quadruple win at the polls for lesbian and gay rights, in Iowa Maine, Maryland, and Washington state. Go to November 6, 2012.

On June 26, 2015, in Obergefell v. Hudson, the Supreme Court declared that same-sex marriage was constitutional in the entire United States under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Learn more at a timeline on same-sex marriage in America: http://www.freedomtomarry.org/pages/history-and-timeline-of-marriage

Read about the landmark Supreme Court case: Debbie Cenziper and Jim Obergefell, Love Wins: The Lovers and Lawyers Who Fought the Landmark Case for Marriage Equality  (2016)

Read about the history of the GLBT revolution: Lillian Faderman, The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle (2015)

Learn more at Freedom to Marry: http://www.freedomtomarry.org/

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