“Who would have thought, Iowa?”
It’s a question many around the state, and around the country, have asked since the Iowa Supreme Court overturned the state’s ban on same-sex marriage.
It’s the question “Dan,” a 47-year-old Kansas businessman asked when he heard the news of the court’s decision last April. Dan married his long-time partner in one of Iowa’s first same-sex weddings last June.
The wedding was not only one of Iowa’s first same-sex marriages, but one of the first in Fremont County. A friend who was ordained on the Internet performed the ceremony at Waubonsie State Park.
“We are 100 percent happy and so glad we did it,” Dan said.
“Until you have to fight for it, you take it for granted, but I never took it for granted.”