Kimmy wants to write discrimination into the Iowa Constitution

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Ugh

Iowa’s governor appeared to signal support for an amendment to the state’s constitution that would ban same-sex marriage this week.

During a news conference in Pella on Tuesday, Governor Kim Reynolds was asked about a proposed plank in the state Republican party’s platform calling for a repeal of any laws that allow marriage between same-sex couples.

The Iowa Supreme Court ruled same-sex marriage legal in the state back in 2009, but Reynolds says she’d prefer the issue be put to a vote.

I absolutely hate her and the rest of the Iowa GOP.

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1. Under Obergefell same sex marriage is

a right under the US Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land. The Iowa Constitution can't trump that.

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2. Of course the supremacy clause prevails, but that is secondary.

There are many insidious motives attendant with such posturing and "flouting" of law. To name a few:

1) Throw red meat to the evangelical and social conservative base and solidify GOP standing with them.
2) Activate and motivate RW voters to turnout (as if sharks in the water feeding on red meat).
3) Force AG Miller to refuse to defend such an amendment, if passed, when it is challenged in court--which it most certainly would be.
4) Create a public "forum" in which to incite harassment and persecution, both verbal and otherwise, of our LGTBQ friends in Iowa.

And we would be well advised to remember that so-called "supreme" law is inherently and perpetually unsettled, and that any SCOTUS ruling is tenuous, at best, and can be overturned on principle. This is especially the case with recent, less-institutionalized precedent. The equal protection principle is ever-evolving (or DEVOLVING under conservative rulings).

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3. Yeah they're hoping to get some more reich wing judges in who will take the US back to the 50s.

The 1850s, that is.

If Kimmie and the rest of them get that particular wet dream then that constitutional amendment would come in to force.

Kimmie needs to be opposed at every turn from now until November. I hope Hubble plans on being a hard, pipe hitting sort of opponent here.