1st Congressional District Republicans in Iowa Remove Marriage Inequality Language from Platform

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Iowa has been a marriage equality state for five years now. Life has gone on. No pastors have been jailed. No churches have been shuttered for refusing gay weddings. Nothing has changed except that same-sex couples have been able to legally marry. Despite this, the Iowa GOP has continued to fight against Iowa's gay and lesbian families and really want to dismantle these marriages.

Well... Not quite anymore. Republicans within Iowa's 1st Congressional District have decided to stop fighting gay marriage:

Republicans in Iowa's 1st Congressional District no longer declare in their district platform that marriage is only between one man and one woman. The plank was replaced with a statement that the government should have no role in marriage...

Tony Krebsbach -- who at Saturday's 1st District convention was voted out of his position on the state GOP central committee -- said that platform committee members in the northeast Iowa district decided on the change about a month ago.

The platform committee realized Saturday that a district mailer did not include the updated statement. The committee presented a corrected platform, with the new marriage-related plank, at Saturday's convention, Krebsbach said. At the convention, Republicans who opposed the change made three attempts to amend the platform to include the traditional marriage plank, but each attempt failed.

I'm not sure how long this plank will survive, but it's certainly a good sign.