Iowa GOP urges officials defy gay marriage ruling

[NorthCarolina]

Bartz, Iowa Family Policy Center encourage county officials to defy supreme court same-sex marriage ruling

State Sen. Merlin Bartz (R-Grafton) has enlisted the help of the Iowa Family Policy Center to circulate petitions designed to encourage Iowa’s 99 county recorders to defy the Iowa Supreme Court’s decision in Varnum v. Brien that effectively legalized same-sex marriage.

According to instructions emailed out to the Iowa Family Policy Center’s members and posted on Bartz’s poorly formatted web page, conservatives should print out copies of the petition form to bring with them to church this Sunday, and then they should deliver signed petitions to their county recorder when their office opens Monday morning:

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[Wapsie B]

1. Merlin Merlin Merlin

open the closet door and come out. It's ok.

[bluestateguy]

2. There's a possible future George Wallace among some of those county recorders

It will just take one to make a scene and stand in the courthouse door to refuse to approve a gay marriage...

right before Governor Culver orders the state National Guard to brush him/her aside and have the marriage carried out.

[MineralMan]

3. Portrait of a man who never got laid in High School

http://www.iowasenaterepublicans.org/Bartz/Bartz.htm
Merlin Bartz

Now, someone should send something to those County Recorders that defines misfeasance. That oughta do the trick.

On edit: Sorry for the huge photo...I substituted a link.

[sui generis]

4. That's fine, and I urge anyone denied any rights to sue

the holy fucking shit out of every involved county official AND Senator Merlin Fartz in criminal and civil courts.

Go ahead, make us rich, thankyaverymuch.

[damntexdem]

5. Disobedience to the rule of law, and failure to do one's duty -- very popular with the GOP.

It's not a job, it's the profession of an obsession.

[sakabatou]

6. GOP: Party of Bigotry

[tbyg52]

7. Typical R - must follow laws except when it doesn't suit them. nt