62% of GOP Voters in Iowa Against Gay Marriage

Iowa has now been a marriage equality state for five years. For years, we were warned of all sorts of problems that would occur if that happened. And yet no pastors have been jailed. No churches have been shuttered. And kindergartners are not being taught the mechanics of gay sex. In fact, only one thing has changed since April 2009: same-sex couples are legally marrying in this state and our marriages are equal to every other marriage.

But that doesn't stop the Iowa Republican Party from fighting against the ongoing existence of Iowa's gay families.

A Loras College Poll determined that a majority of likely Republican primary election voters in Iowa want their political party to continue fighting gay marriage:

According to the poll, 62 percent favored keeping the GOP’s defense of traditional marriage in its platform, 10 percent would accept same-sex marriage as it exist following the Varnum decision and 23 percent would remove government from the equation.

Once again, it has been five years. And they still want to defend heterosexual marriage from marriages like mine.