IA: Davenport Republican among sponsors of bill to ban gay marriage
Davenport Republican Luana Stoltenberg and Muscatine Republican Mark Cisneros are among eight Iowa lawmakers who introduced a constitutional amendment defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
State Reps. Cisneros and Stoltenberg, who won a razor-thin election after campaigning on a socially conservative platform, co-sponsored the bill, HJR8, which was introduced this week in the Iowa House.
The bill has not been assigned a subcommittee and is expected to fail the Legislature’s first funnel deadline on Friday. House Speaker Pat Grassley told the Des Moines Register he did not expect the bill to move.
Democrats have introduced an opposing bill that would codify Iowa’s 2009 Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage in Iowa, which also is not expected to move past the funnel deadline.
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