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An Iowa judge called his state's marriage law unconstitutional, ordering the government to recognize same-sex marriages.(The Week)(Brief article)

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An Iowa judge called his state's marriage law unconstitutional, ordering the government to recognize same-sex marriages. The leading Democratic presidential candidates all claim to oppose same-sex marriage, but are unwilling to do a thing about it. The Republican candidates at least say that they will try to appoint judges who will not issue such activist rulings. But they are not much more willing to take action. Fred Thompson, Rudy Giuliani, and ...

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