Greg wrote:

> IME Iowa is a pretty progressive state, Michael, it has more in common
> with a relatively liberal "live and let live" northern state like
> Minnesota or Wisconsin than it does with a fairly redneck state like
> Mizzourah...

If that were the case, why wouldn't the VOTERS have been the ones approving
*** marriage, rather than the state supreme court? Sounds to me like the
state is being forced in a direction that the voters don't want to go. (But
since voters can often make stupid decisions, that's not necessarily a bad
thing.)

Bob