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Same Sex Marriage Now Legal In Polk County, Iowa!


No comment needed except… 1) Wow! and 2) It will be interesting to see how this story will play out alongside the presidential primary election cycle. Surely there will be a hailstorm of commentary on that over the next few days.

DES MOINES, Iowa - A Polk County judge on Thursday struck down Iowa’s law banning gay marriage and ordered the county recorder to permit gay and lesbian couples to marry.

Less than two hours after word of the ruling was publicized, two Des Moines men applied at the Polk County recorder’s office for a marriage license, and for the first time the application was accepted. The process of granting a license to marry in Iowa takes three days.

Olbermann: Bush & Cheney should resign

  • Posted by Brian
  • July 4, 2007

It’ll never happen, but…

An appropriate Special Comment for our nation’s birthday celebration.

I Voted for Wesley Clark in BSB’s March Straw Poll

  • Posted by Joseph
  • March 4, 2007

Like a lot of you, I recently voted in BSB’s March straw poll- and I surprised myself by voting for Wesley Clark.
I guess I didn’t realize, until that moment, how uninspired I was by the other candidates (i.e. the actual politicians) also vying for the democratic nomination. I also didn’t realize that other people […]