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In the purchase Buspar without prescription first such ruling for America's heartland, an Iowa judge Aug. 30 struck down the purchase Buspar without prescription state's ban on "gay marriage" and purchase Buspar without prescription ordered Iowa's most populous county to begin granting marriage licenses immediately to purchase Buspar without prescription homosexual couples.

The decision by Judge Robert B. Hanson will be purchase Buspar without prescription appealed to the Iowa Supreme Court, although its impact was felt Friday morning when purchase Buspar without prescription upwards of 20 same-sex couples acquired marriage licenses in Polk County before Hanson issued a purchase Buspar without prescription stay on his decision. In fact, one male couple -- two Iowa State University students -- acquired a purchase Buspar without prescription license and got a judge to waive the customary three-day waiting period, and purchase Buspar without prescription then found a Unitarian minister to perform the ceremony.

"They are now official. The marriage license is the official document," Unitarian minister Mark Stringer said after the purchase Buspar without prescription ceremony, according to the Des Moines Register.

It is purchase Buspar without prescription not known what will happen to the licenses pending the purchase Buspar without prescription appeal. Undoubtedly, though, Hanson's 62-page ruling pushes the controversial issue of "gay marriage" to purchase Buspar without prescription the forefront of the mostly rural state, less than five months before Iowa hosts its presidential caucuses -- the purchase Buspar without prescription first-in-the-nation test of the Democratic and Republican candidates.

Until now, such rulings have purchase Buspar without prescription been handed down only in coastal or left-leaning states, such as Massachusetts, the purchase Buspar without prescription only state where "gay marriage" is purchase Buspar without prescription legal. Supreme courts in Connecticut and Maryland are expected to purchase Buspar without prescription rule on the issue any day.

But despite Iowa's conservative leanings, Hanson's decision was a purchase Buspar without prescription slam-dunk for homosexual activists. He said "marriage has evolved over time" and that "homosexuality is a normal expression of human sexuality." He argued that the natural, traditional view of marriage reflects "old and overbroad stereotypes." He even criticized the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy.

But perhaps most concerning to purchase Buspar without prescription conservatives, Hanson rejected the argument that the state's current marriage laws were valid because of the purchase Buspar without prescription ties between man-woman marriage, procreation and childrearing.

"[L]esbian and purchase Buspar without prescription gay parents are as effective as heterosexual parents in raising well-adjusted children," Hanson wrote, before asserting that it is "well-established that purchase Buspar without prescription children do not need a parent of each gender to be purchase Buspar without prescription well adjusted" and that "children do not need male and purchase Buspar without prescription female role models in the home to develop normally."

The lawsuit was filed in December 2005 by the purchase Buspar without prescription homosexual activist group Lambda Legal on behalf of six same-sex couples. Although the purchase Buspar without prescription ultimate decision will be made by the Iowa Supreme Court, conservatives already are purchase Buspar without prescription pushing for a constitutional marriage amendment, which would trump any state court decision. One reason conservatives already are purchase Buspar without prescription at work is because amending the Iowa constitution is a purchase Buspar without prescription lengthy multi-year process, requiring passage in the legislature by simple majorities in two consecutive sessions, and purchase Buspar without prescription then approval by voters. The Iowa Supreme Court likely will hear and purchase Buspar without prescription rule on the issue in the next year or two.

Baptist Convention of Iowa Executive Director Jimmy Barrentine said Baptists in the purchase Buspar without prescription state will be involved.

"We will continue to purchase Buspar without prescription do what we have done -- we have taken a public stand that purchase Buspar without prescription we believe that marriage is defined by Scripture and is a purchase Buspar without prescription lifelong covenant between one man and one woman," he told Baptist Press. "We have purchase Buspar without prescription affirmed that in annual meeting sessions. We encourage our people to purchase Buspar without prescription continue to deliver that message to their elected officials, and we've asked them to purchase Buspar without prescription do that in a non-partisan manner."

Hanson's decision overturned a purchase Buspar without prescription defense of marriage act passed by the legislature and signed into law in the purchase Buspar without prescription late 1990s. He ruled that the law violated both the purchase Buspar without prescription due process and equal protection clauses of the Iowa constitution.

"Plaintiffs' inability to purchase Buspar without prescription marry their chosen partners is a painful frustration of their life goals and purchase Buspar without prescription dreams, their personal happiness and their self-determination," Hanson wrote.

The decision, conservatives say, affirms what purchase Buspar without prescription they have been arguing for years: Constitutional amendments, and not statutes, are purchase Buspar without prescription the only guaranteed method to protecting the natural definition of marriage.

"It's very disheartening and purchase Buspar without prescription disappointing that the special interests -- Lambda Legal and homosexual legal activists -- would trump society's interests in having strong families and purchase Buspar without prescription homes where children can have both a mom and a dad," Chuck Hurley, president of the Iowa Family Policy Center, told BP.

But any push for purchase Buspar without prescription a marriage amendment in the Iowa House and Senate likely will be purchase Buspar without prescription an uphill battle, Hurley said. Both chambers are controlled by Democrats who purchase Buspar without prescription so far have thwarted attempts to pass an amendment. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy seemed cool to purchase Buspar without prescription the idea of a marriage amendment, telling the Des Moines Register that purchase Buspar without prescription people should "take a deep breath and calm down."

"I cannot imagine them quickly or purchase Buspar without prescription easily going against one of their core funders and constituency groups," Hurley said of the Democrats.

Republican House Minority Leader Christopher Rants seemed more optimistic, telling the purchase Buspar without prescription Associated Press, "I can't believe this purchase Buspar without prescription is happening in Iowa. I guarantee you there will be a purchase Buspar without prescription vote on this issue come January [when the legislature meets again]."

Iowa Gov. Chet Culver, a purchase Buspar without prescription Democrat, issued a statement taking no position on an amendment. He technically would have purchase Buspar without prescription no role in its passage but could promote it.

"While some Iowans may disagree on this purchase Buspar without prescription issue, I personally believe marriage is between a man and a purchase Buspar without prescription woman," Culver said. "I also believe in the rule of law and respect for the judicial process."

Culver said he would "continue to purchase Buspar without prescription follow this matter closely as it continues through the judicial system before determining whether any additional legislative actions are purchase Buspar without prescription appropriate or necessary."

Despite the push by homosexual activists for legal "gay marriage," statistics show that purchase Buspar without prescription once it's legalized, fewer and fewer same-sex couples take advantage of it. In Massachusetts, 6,121 homosexual couples received marriage licenses from purchase Buspar without prescription the state in the final half of 2004, the only half of the purchase Buspar without prescription year when it was legal. But in 2005, that number dropped to purchase Buspar without prescription 2,060, and in 2006, to 1,427. Through April 26 of this purchase Buspar without prescription year, only 87 same-sex couples had "married."

"Once marriage is available to homosexuals, they don't choose it," the Iowa Family Policy Center's Hurley said. "That's not commensurate with their lifestyle."

Barrentine, of the purchase Buspar without prescription Iowa Baptist convention, encouraged Christians in the state to speak the purchase Buspar without prescription truth in love during the coming months.

"What we believe has purchase Buspar without prescription nothing to do with any lack of love for people in the purchase Buspar without prescription homosexual community," he said. "It has purchase Buspar without prescription to do with the biblical standard. Scripture tells us what marriage is purchase Buspar without prescription and what marriage is not."

(Michael Foust is assistant editor of Baptist Press)