Iowa Republicans Push for Ban on Gay Marriage

Iowa Republicans have proposed a pair of bills targeting same-sex marriage, in a deliberate and defiant attempt to undermine a federal law requiring recognition of such unions. The push comes eight years after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in a critical ruling, and just a few months after President Joe Biden signed into law the Respect for Marriage Act, which requires the federal government and individual state governments to recognize the validity of legally performed same-sex marriages. Currently, the Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges remains...