Peter Said:

I hear a lot of rumors that Iowa's gonna have an amendment to ban gay marriage on the ballot?

We Answered:

it should stay legal, there isn't any reason to stop it

Sherri Said:

Why is Terry Branstad the only Republican who's not obsessed with banning gay marriage in Iowa?

We Answered:

"gay marriage is not a central issue"

It's NOT. Gays are not going around the country blowing up buildings with day cares inside of them. Gays are not going around blowing up abortion clinics in the name of "Jesus Christ". Gays mind their own business for the most part. Gays are not worried about what heterosexuals are doing up in their bedrooms it's the other way around. Gays are not the bad guys.

Ryan Said:

Why are the Republicans in Iowa so desperate to ban gay marriage?

We Answered:

They're getting desperate. They know time is running out; gradually people are figuring out that gay marriage hurts nobody, and the anti-gays are just plain old bigots.

Justin Said:

Conservatives: Do you support this illegal move?

We Answered:

Do Not !
Flick your bean
while asking questions
it makes you say weird stuff

Gladys Said:

Republicans: Are you disappointed that Iowa's GOP actually elected a sensible governor?

We Answered:

It's a good thing that Terry Branstad won the GOP, primary. He is no great shakes but compared to Bob Vander Plaats he is a moderate. Vanderplaats is a Palin tye lunatic who is only obsessed with gay marriage and outlawing abortion based on his behaviour as AG. However Terry's issue is economics, and he will concentrate on that, However in this respect he is very Conservative, so. I am sorry Gov Culver was defeated, because he was a good Governor, who looked out for the people

Hope this helps

Violet Said:

Bob Vander Plaats: are you kidding me?

We Answered:

Sounds reasonable. After all even the Supreme Court can not redefine basic terms of law to mean something else. It's a rogue court that does so. For all of human history "marriage" has meant a binding contract between a man and a woman.

As the Declaration of Independence so beautifully put it: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter it"

That is, in this case of the rogue court, they have made a ruling that goes against the order of our Creator where He specified what marriage is. Thus the people have a duty to uphold that natural law, and to rebuke the rogue branch of Government and overturn -- to alter -- the rogue ruling.

When Bob Vander Pllaats follows through on his promise, then it is he who is lawfully acting to undo the effect of an outlaw court. He would then be acting as a proper agent upholding the "consent of the governed".

Do your so-called legal experts recognize that men make mistakes at times, and that even a Judge, or whole assembly of Judges can be wrong?

Know you history! It is exactly the kind of governmental arrogance that the state supreme court imposed in this ruling which our American Founding Fathers opposed, and fought against.

Hooray for Mr. Vander Plaats!

Tonya Said:

Are you proud of the state of Iowa for doing the right thing?

We Answered:

None of which issues they legally have the ability to effect.

By law and constitution, governors do not makes laws, they execute them.

Governors cannot do the budget because only the legislature takes care of the financial budgeting, it is the governors job to ensure the budgets are carried out.

GOvernors cannnot create laws which ban gay marriage, which is an idiotic problem anyway. What we should be doing is separating church and state by separating civil union and marriage which is really the civil rights issue anyway. Only religion can create gay marriage, which is really a choice issue there. Anyways I'm digressing.

Governors cannot create jobs, nor can the state legislature, although they can cut regulations (the leg can not the governor) and taxes (again only the leg can do that) so that companies have some freed up money to spend on streamlining their operations and allowing them to keep or expand their employment issues.

Governors CAN however, encourage cutbacks on taxation and regulation, the severity of mixing of church and state and civil rights denials that civil union and marriage being the same creates.

OH I KNOW, the governor CAN also encourage more people to join the National Guard overwhich he is the commander in chief, thus creating more jobs. Of course then, For the sake of the conspiracy theorists out there, he will have to find some "natural" disaster to keep them busy.

I know we all think that the president (or governor) is some great position in the government. It is not. It holds no real power except in veto. And executing the law. Not much more, but influence and encouragement.