Amazing what one decision and a few strokes of the pen can do...

As much as Minnesotans love to poke fun at their southern neighbors, socially, Iowa is about as conservative a state as you'd ever see. In the heart of what the coasts call "flyover country" is a bastion of the midwest work ethic, hearty farm families.. everything that one considers to be well and good about America.

If there was to be an amendment on the ballot to approve gay marriages in Iowa, there wouldn't be a snowball's chance in hell of its passage; in fact, Iowans passed a law to preserve marriage as a legal and social contract between one man and one woman.

We have been told time and time again, that a state Constitutional Amendment to preserve and protect the institution of Marriage was unnecessary, since "there were laws already on the books."

Err..Come again?

With one decision and a few strokes of a pen, an Iowa judge decided that he, himself knew what was best for Iowa, and struck down the voter-approved and instituted legislative ban on same-sex marriage; in effect, telling the vast majority of Iowans to take their sensibilities and "stick it where the sun don't shine."

A super-majority of Minnesotans, 60 percent at last count, are for preserving the institution of marriage in its current state of being. Yet the DFL delegation, in its perpetual state of condescension and self-perceived omniscience, has continually thwarted efforts to put the issue in front of the voters in the form of a Constitutional amendment to make it so; all the while assuaging them that the state of marriage was not in peril in Minnesota.

It is time that the majority of Minnesotans once again rise up and call upon the DFL to preserve the integrity of marriage.

The future of our society demands it.