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Effort To Ban Gay Marriage In Iowa Fails (OnTop)

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A resolution that seeks to place a gay marriage ban in the Iowa Constitution will likely die in a Senate committee.


State Senator Jeff Danielson, a Democrat from Waterloo, told the The Gazette on Thursday that there isn't sufficient support for the measure in the Senate State Government Committee that he chairs to move it to the Senate, and that the resolution will likely fall victim to an impending April 1 deadline.

“We do not have the votes for that in State Government so that will not survive the funnel,” Danielson said.

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