DES MOINES — Iowa senators failed to force the state’s gay marriage law into voter hands Tuesday, according to The Iowa Independent.
House and Senate Republicans, and at least one Democrat, pushed for a constitutional amendment outlawing same-sex marriage, according to the report. The petition’s failure likely means marriage equality will persist in Iowa until at least 2014, as a constitutional amendment requires two consecutive votes by the general assembly before it’s confirmed, according to KGAN CBS 2 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
For The Iowa Independent‘s original report, click here, and for KGAN‘s report, click here.
