 Iowa's
divorce attorneys decry State's latest same-sex marriage halt
(Des
Moines, IA) Late Friday morning Polk County judge Robert Hanson
formally
stayed his own ruling, in effect for less than twenty-four hours,
clearing the way for same-sex couples to apply for marriage licenses.
The stay, given after nearly two dozen gay and lesbian couples had
already acquired marriage licenses, means the county recorder's office
is not permitted to accept any more marriage applications from same-sex
couples until the Iowa Supreme Court visits the matter.
Almost
immediately after Judge Hanson issued the hold on his ruling the Iowa
Association of Divorce Attorneys (IADA), expressed its outrage against
the judge's actions. In a statement released Friday afternoon IADA said
that “all citizens of this great state deserve the same
opportunities for short-lived happiness, years of passive aggression
and infidelity, and an amicable split due to irreconcilable differences
regardless of race, gender, religious or sexual orientation.”
Attorney
Martin Lye, IADA's president, was dumbfounded by the judge's actions.
“There's nothing in [this] state's constitution, or any
state's for that matter, which prohibits couples from divorcing based
on sexual orientation. It stands to reason then that same-sex couples
must be allowed to marry, enjoying the subsequent benefits and
inevitable horrors which follow in order to fully partake of their
constitutionally guaranteed right to call it quits.” The State
Supreme Court is expected to take up the issue later this fall.
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