Pop23
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If the law was superior, men wouldn't be allowed to marry men since that's how the law reads. Supreme Court rulings have altered laws regarding gender and marriage.That was last updated in 2005, before Supreme Court rulings altered their marriage laws.The "pamphlet" Iowa has on their government websites? The one which reads, "not closely related by blood or first cousins", are not eligible to marry in their state?Because that random person backs up his argument with many legal opinions from actual attorneys.
But you have a pamphlet you can't back up.
So sad for you
And you didn't answer my question... why would I take the word of some random person you found on the Internet over the "pamphlet" I found on their government websites?
And of course I have evidence which backs me up... not a single such marriage took place in Iowa in 6 years. Even you said families, out of hundreds of millions of people, would marry to take advantage of marriage benefits. Yet none have.
Iowa also says you can't marry there -- you have to be legally competent.
Prove none have
I'm sure you can gladly supply the DNA tests, right.
And the law specifically states the pairs who's marriages are void (the opposite of Valid) it appears you are wrong.
Here is the license qualification that you pamphlet references:
595.3 LICENSE.
Previous to the solemnization of any marriage, a license for that
purpose must be obtained from the county registrar. The license must
not be granted in any case:
1. Where either party is under the age necessary to render the
marriage valid.
2. Where either party is under eighteen years of age, unless the
marriage is approved by a judge of the district court as provided by
section 595.2.
3. Where either party is disqualified from making any civil
contract.
4. Where the parties are within the degrees of consanguinity or
affinity in which marriages are prohibited by law.
5. Where either party is a ward under a guardianship and the
court has made a finding that the ward lacks the capacity to contract
a valid marriage.
Your pamphlet references number 4.
Those prohibited are outlined in 595.19
They are:
Iowa Code 595.19
595.19 VOID MARRIAGES.
1. Marriages between the following persons who are related by
blood are void:
a. Between a man and his father's sister, mother's sister,
daughter, sister, son's daughter, daughter's daughter, brother's
daughter, or sister's daughter.
b. Between a woman and her father's brother, mother's
brother, son, brother, son's son, daughter's son, brother's son, or
sister's son.
c. Between first cousins.
2. Marriages between persons either of whom has a husband or wife
living are void, but, if the parties live and cohabit together after
the death or divorce of the former husband or wife, such marriage
shall be valid.
Sorry dude, still wrong.
Any way you cut it, same sex immediate family members may Marry in Iowa.
Their latest instructions indicate no consanguineous marriages are allowed.
So using you're idiotic logic. A stepdaughter can marry her stepfather and a stepson can Marry his stepmother.
Also then, show us the updated version.
Clue, you're pamphlet is just reference material. The ACTUAL LAW is superior.
You lose again
And still, Iowa doesn't allow any close-family members to marry each other regardless of gender...
IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF APPLICANTS TO READ THIS CAREFULLY BEFORE MAKING APPLICATION!
Iowa law provides that marriage is a civil contract between two persons who are (1) 18 years of age or older; (2) not already married to each other or still legally married to someone else; (3) not closely related by blood or first cousins; and (4) legally competent to enter into a civil contract.
I've linked to the Iowa Supreme Court change, which only creates legal same sex marriage and pointing only to Iowa 595.2 and nothing else.
But iowa does not allow opposite sex step children to marry step parents.
So your claim turns out to be bunk.
But you already knew that.
You're understanding of law is incredibly limited.
And, you lose twice in a single post.
Of course you uber right wing nutjobs are bigots to begin with
So there's that.