Cindy Golding: Iowa won't stop wasting time until you allow Republicans to waste time putting civil rights before majority whims

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10/31/2011

by Jeremy Hooper

Both Democrat Liz Mathis and Republican Cindy Golding agree that, as they campaign for a state Senate seat in Iowa's 18th District, few locals are asking them about same-sex marriage. But Golding has mega-financing coming in from the National Organization For Marriage (among others), so of course she's going to make an mountain out of a constitutionally sound, fairly-decided molehill:

[YT: PatchResources]

The state's not going to get past it until the GOP manages to take court-tested civil rights and put them before the whims of a public referendum, forcing certain citizens to sit around and suffer the indignity of having their tax-paying residency subjected to a popularity contest? Well gee, Cindy Golding, what's your cure for lazy Sunday boredom -- casting stones at your neighbor's window in hopes that the ensuing sparring might prove more interesting than the previously instated peace?

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