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So today was the first day here in Iowa that gay couples could apply for a marriage license. For that matter, a few even got married today.
Over 200 applications for licenses
http://www.press-citizen.com/article/20090427/NEWS01/90427006/1079
Yet no mention anywhere meaningful in any of the national news outlets. The only place I found a mention was way down in the "US News/Midwest" section of CNN.
However, pretty much every one of them made mention of the tornadoes last night that to the best of my understanding only caused significant property damage to a half dozen properties, and no significant injuries were reported.
Shame on you media. Make headlines over a story that affects a few dozen people, but ignore a story that affects thousands and thousands. Are you afraid to cover it, or are our backwards Iowa ways not worth covering?
I guess we were only the third state to allow gay marriage, nobody cares about third place. For that matter, its not like we had any part in being first to recognize and choose our most recent President.
Iowa, with the state motto "Our liberties we prize, and our rights we will maintain", in fact has been a early leader on many things in this nation:
http://www.iptv.org/iowajournal/story.cfm/519
1839 - Territorial Supreme Court: man could not be sent back into slavery "re: Ralph," WL 2764, at *6 (Iowa Terr. July 1839) "no man in this territory can be reduced to slavery." (US - 1865 after Civil War)
1851 - Iowa General Assembly: removed ban on inter-racial marriage (1967 US)
1851 - Iowa "Code of 1851:" gave married women property rights
1857 - Iowa Constitution included African-Americans 'same rights' as every citizen
1867 - Iowa Supreme Court: broke with 'common law' that men would get absolute custody of children in divorce; "Cole v Cole"
1868 - Iowa Supreme Court: school desegregation case "Clark v Board of Directors," 24 Iowa 266 -- a 12-year-old girl could not be barred from a Muscatine school on basis of race
1884 - Iowa General Assembly: civil rights law enacted (racial) - Acts of the Twentieth General Assembly
1894 women were given "partial suffrage", which allowed them to vote on issues, but not for candidates.
1920 - Historic First: (Iowa General Assembly?) When women got the vote, Iowa also made them eligible for jury service (most states still didn't allow this for a decade or more)
1924 -- Native Americans given right to vote.
Over 200 applications for licenses
http://www.press-citizen.com/article/20090427/NEWS01/90427006/1079
Yet no mention anywhere meaningful in any of the national news outlets. The only place I found a mention was way down in the "US News/Midwest" section of CNN.
However, pretty much every one of them made mention of the tornadoes last night that to the best of my understanding only caused significant property damage to a half dozen properties, and no significant injuries were reported.
Shame on you media. Make headlines over a story that affects a few dozen people, but ignore a story that affects thousands and thousands. Are you afraid to cover it, or are our backwards Iowa ways not worth covering?
I guess we were only the third state to allow gay marriage, nobody cares about third place. For that matter, its not like we had any part in being first to recognize and choose our most recent President.
Iowa, with the state motto "Our liberties we prize, and our rights we will maintain", in fact has been a early leader on many things in this nation:
http://www.iptv.org/iowajournal/story.cfm/519
1839 - Territorial Supreme Court: man could not be sent back into slavery "re: Ralph," WL 2764, at *6 (Iowa Terr. July 1839) "no man in this territory can be reduced to slavery." (US - 1865 after Civil War)
1851 - Iowa General Assembly: removed ban on inter-racial marriage (1967 US)
1851 - Iowa "Code of 1851:" gave married women property rights
1857 - Iowa Constitution included African-Americans 'same rights' as every citizen
1867 - Iowa Supreme Court: broke with 'common law' that men would get absolute custody of children in divorce; "Cole v Cole"
1868 - Iowa Supreme Court: school desegregation case "Clark v Board of Directors," 24 Iowa 266 -- a 12-year-old girl could not be barred from a Muscatine school on basis of race
1884 - Iowa General Assembly: civil rights law enacted (racial) - Acts of the Twentieth General Assembly
1894 women were given "partial suffrage", which allowed them to vote on issues, but not for candidates.
1920 - Historic First: (Iowa General Assembly?) When women got the vote, Iowa also made them eligible for jury service (most states still didn't allow this for a decade or more)
1924 -- Native Americans given right to vote.