A same-sex marriage ban failed in Iowa, meaning it can’t get to the ballot before 2014.

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An Albanian law bans discrimination based on sexual orientation, doesn’t lift marriage ban.

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92% of IA: Marriage changed nothing

Iowans favor a same-sex marriage ban 41-40 while 92% agree the issue doesn’t affect them.

92% of IA: Marriage changed nothing

Iowans favor a same-sex marriage ban 41-40 while 92% agree the issue doesn’t affect them.

92% of IA: Marriage changed nothing

Iowans favor a same-sex marriage ban 41-40 while 92% agree the issue doesn’t affect them.

Should Proposition 8 recall be put to voters in 2010?

Marriage-equality advocates are split about the timing of a ballot question to overturn the California’s Proposition 8 constitutional marriage ban. Some major backers, including David Bohnett, believe it’s better to postpone a possible 2010 vote rather than risk another defeat. But an informal poll of leaders affiliated with the Courage Campaign shows support for putting the repeal question on next year’s ballot. The deadline to file the question with the state attorney general is Sept. 25. The New York Times (7/26) , San Francisco Chronicle/Politics blog (7/25)

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History Is on My Side, Says Calif. Justice Who Voted Against Gay-Marriage Ban

Carlos Moreno stood alone in May when he dissented from the decision upholding Proposition 8. But the California Supreme Court justice says history will prove him right — that denying gays and lesbians the right to marry is illegal discrimination.

“Someday at some point my dissent will be the majority view in California,” he said during an interview in his San Francisco chambers late Wednesday. “I think that’s where the law is headed.”

“Equal protection is either equal or it’s not,” he added. “It’s not the kind of thing you can chip away at.”

Moreno, one of four justices to back same-sex marriage last year and the sole vote against Prop 8 this year, took time to talk to The Recorder about his votes, his brief moment on the Obama administration’s short list for the nation’s highest court, and U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s controversial “wise Latina” comment.

Moreno’s dissent in Strauss v. Horton, 46 Cal.4th 364, came at a touchy time for him. He had been contacted by the Obama administration a week earlier as a possible replacement for retiring U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter. Since President Obama has officially stated his opposition to same-sex marriage, it could be assumed Moreno’s position on marriage and Prop 8 might be troublesome.

But, Moreno said, Obama’s vetters didn’t ask him how his Prop 8 vote — which wasn’t yet public — would go.

“They just asked if there were any high-profile cases — past or present, including on the trial court — that would be the kind of case that would draw attention.”

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