Let Us Vote Iowa

Welcome to LetUsVoteIowa.com!

Informing Iowans, who will encourage their legislators to let the people vote on the Iowa Marriage Amendment (IMA) as early as the law allows which is 2011 … which requires its first passage through the House and Senate during the 2009 Session.

April 3, 2009, the Iowa Supreme Court gave their opinion on the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) passed in 1998, and so now it is up to WE THE PEOPLE to show our legislators that they must LET US VOTE on a constitutional amendment.

This decision isn't only about "moral issues" - this is a breach of the constitutional separation of powers! The Iowa Supreme Court has attempted to make law - which is NOT the role of the judicial branch.

This decision is anti-family AND unconstitutional!

We need to tell legislators - "take your power back!"

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Continue to keep pressure on the Iowa Legislators. Remind them any procedural vote is a vote on the Iowa Marriage Amendment, and you will REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER!!

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Quick-reference list of Representatives and their home contact info.

We are updating the website as things change. Please check back often as this issue is extremely important to our state and nation.

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We are asking the Iowa Legislature, led by Senator Mike Gronstal and Representative Pat Murphy, to let “we the people” of Iowa have the opportunity to vote on the definition of marriage ourselves.

Gronstal and Murphy have complete control of whether the IMA is brought up for a vote in the House and Senate in 2009. If they allow the IMA up and if the legislature votes its first passage in 2009, we the people of Iowa could potentially vote on a Constitutional Amendment defining marriage as being between one man and one woman as early as 2011 – after its second passage next year. If they don’t allow the IMA up for a vote or if they don’t pass it in 2009 or 2010, then the earliest we’d have the chance to vote on the IMA would be 2013 – way too late, since the Iowa Supreme Court ruled in favor of same-sex marriage.

So we’re asking Gronstal and Murphy and other members of the Iowa Legislature: Let us vote! You don’t have to agree with our view of same-sex marriage, but give we the people – the Iowans you serve, who are on both sides of this issue – the opportunity to have a voice in how marriage is defined in our state.

News Articles - read some of the articles where the IMA is being discussed from the Des Moines Register, Oskaloosa Herald, The Atlantic Monthly.

Radio Programs - Steve Deace, Jan Mickelson, and Tamara Scott podcasts related to same-sex marriage in Iowa and the IMA.