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Iowan targets judge in pro-gay marriage ruling
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| Last Edited | The Sunset Provision Sep 13, 2007 11:10pm |
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| News Date | Friday, September 14, 2007 05:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A sometime GOP candidate for the U.S. Senate in Iowa seeks to impeach the trial court judge who last month struck down Iowa's ban on same-sex marriage, Associated Press reported.
Hog farmer Bill Salier and the group he co-founded, Everyday America, this week launched online petitions asking the Iowa Legislature to impeach Polk County Judge Robert Hanson, who Salier says violated the state constitution in his Aug. 30 ruling.
Dozens of gay and lesbian couples lined up in Des Moines for marriage licenses, but only one couple was able to wed before Hanson stayed his own ruling pending review by the higher courts.
"He's using his own political agenda to advance what he wants to see out of his own social norms and his own personal viewpoints," Salier told Radio Iowa's O. Kay Henderson. "That's legislating from the bench and overriding the authority of the elected individuals that the people of the state of Iowa put in charge."
Impeaching a judge takes an act of the Legislature, which is controlled by Democrats. Gov. Chet Culver, who has criticized Hanson's ruling but signed several pro-gay measures into law, is a Democrat as well.
Response from Everyday America.com's readers, who seem to slant libertarian, has been tepid.
"A government that is designed for the sole purpose of protecting the people from force and fraud (for that's what liberty is), shouldn't care if I am married or single or who I am married to," wrote one. "Think of it as free-market sociology."
The petition had attracted 124 signatures as of Wednesday afternoon.
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