Why WOULDN'T Iowa be at the "Forefront" on the Whole GAY MARRIAGE thing??!!

...after all, my beloved HOME STATE has been on the "cutting edge" for MANY actions in support of equality:

1839- Twenty-six years BEFORE the ratification fo the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery, the Iowa supreme court refuses to recognize a contract that enslaved a man.

1851- The Iowa legislature removes legal contraints agains interracial marriage, more than a century before the U.S. Supreme Court rules against antimiscegenation laws.

1855- The University of Iowa admits its first female student, becoming the first state university in the country to do so.

1868- The Iowa supreme court rules that public school segregation violates the constitutional guarantee of equal protection.

1869- The Iowa state bar becomes the first to admit women.

1873- The Iowa supreme court rules that discrimination in access to public accommodations is a denial of equal protection of the law.

1894- Twenty-six years before the Nineteenth Amendment is enacted, the Iowa legislature grants women the right to vote in some cases, called "partial suffrage".

1970- The University of Iowa becomes one of the first schools in the country to form a gay and lesbian student group.

1976- The Iowa supreme court rules against the state's sodomy law.

GO IOWA!!!!!