Davenport Republican among sponsors of bill to ban gay marriage

The bill has not been assigned a subcommittee and is expected to fail the Legislature’s first funnel deadline on Friday. House Speaker Pat Grassley told the Des Moines Register he did not expect the bill to move. “In accordance with the laws of nature and nature’s God, the state of Iowa recognizes the definition of marriage to be the solemnized union between one human biological male and one human biological female.” “The reason I signed on was because in 2009, the Iowa Supreme Court made an unlawful decision to define...