Reference: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070830/NEWS/70830044/1001&lead=1
We have been haunted since 2005 by a lawsuit that has been in the Polk County Courthouse started by Lambda, radical national homosexual activists, after several homosexual couples were denied licenses to marry. On Thursday, August 30, 2007, Judge Robert Hanson, striking down Iowa's ban on homosexual marriage, shocked all of us. It shocked us, and yet it does not really surprise us.
All us at Iowa Christian Alliance (ICA), knowing the makeup of the Iowa judiciary, knew that this was the likely outcome of that lawsuit. Iowa judges are no different than judges all across America who cannot resist the temptation to legislate, rather than to merely interpret what the legislature might do. That is what compelled us in the past several years to do all that we can to work for amendments to the Federal and Iowa Constitutions that would define marriage as the covenant union of only one man and only one woman. Our lobbyist, Norman Pawlewski, worked long and hard on such Constitutional amendments, and we supported him.
One can wonder how judges can do something like this that is so wrong and so offensive to the average Iowa citizen. Again we see that the judges view themselves as arrogant aristocrats who know so much more than the rest of us. In the past several decades we can see the judges moving away from Biblical standards. Thirty and Forty years ago, Biblical standards of what is right and wrong was always in the background as judges made their rulings and decisions. In recent years, Biblical standards are almost completely abandoned and ignored.
We are once again infuriated by judges who are legislating for all of the rest of us in ways that voters would never approve. We are infuriated by judges who strike down Iowa's Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).
It seems that the clearest direction for us at Iowa Christian Alliance is that we immediately condemn what Judge Hanson has done, and renew our efforts to see that the US Constitution and the Iowa Constitution be amended to define marriage as a covenant relationship between one man and one women.
We have several more months when presidential candidates are coming into Iowa seeking support in the January caucuses. We must demand that all of the presidential candidates state their views on the proposed amendments to the Federal Constitution, and make those views known to all who will be voting in caucuses and conventions. We must enlist the help of our Iowa legislators and hold them accountable when they depart from the standards demanded by Iowa voters. Our work is laid out before us as we are shocked by such bad judgment on the part of the Iowa judiciary.
Morris Hurd
Iowa Christian Alliance, Chairman of the Board
Steve Scheffler
Iowa Christian Alliance, President