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Last Updated on Wednesday, 8 April 2009 02:00 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 8 April 2009 12:41
The new third rail of Iowa politics? From the AP:
Gov. Chet Culver on Tuesday ended days of silence on the Iowa Supreme Court’s decision allowing same-sex marriage, saying he disagrees with the ruling but is “reluctant to support” amending the state constitution to reverse it.
Culver said in a lengthy statement that he hadn’t changed his mind that marriage is between a man and a woman: “This is a tenet of my personal faith.”
However, Culver said the issue before the court in its unanimous ruling Friday involved only civil marriage, and that churches and other religious institutions do not have to perform them.