| Varnum v. Brien SupportiveArgument1 #105128 Varnum v. Brien was the Iowa Supreme Court decision finding it unconstitutional to deny same-sex couples the right to marry. |
The court decision was unanimous.
The court decided that it was "our responsibility, however, is to protect constitutional rights of individuals from legislative enactments that have denied those rights, even when the rights have not yet been broadly accepted, were at one time unimagined, or challenge a deeply ingrained practice or law viewed to be impervious to the passage of time."
They also determined, "The framers of the Iowa Constitution knew, as did the drafters of the United States Constitution, that “times can blind us to certain truths and later generations can see that laws once thought necessary and proper in fact serve only to oppress.”
Varnum v. Brien |