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Iowa Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage
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The Washington Post
4/4/2009
"Iowa became the third state in the country and the first from the rural heartland to legalize same-sex marriage when its Supreme Court yesterday unanimously struck down the state's decade-long ban.
"...Justices look at opinions from other states," said Jennifer C. Pizer, the national marriage project director for Lambda Legal, which brought the Iowa case. 'There's a significant likelihood that [the decision] will influence other states, like California.'