A message from the Iowa Supreme Court

The Iowa Supreme Court's unanimous ruling on their same-sex marriage case just came out. (Thanks to tacithydra for pointing me at it.)

ETA: Of course, while I was reading it and writing this post, it's been mentioned a whole bunch of times on my flist. With, unsurprisingly, much joy.
( some quotes from the opinion )

This ruling really takes on all the anti-SSM arguments like that; I can see this being more influential in the long term than Goodridge.

More on the Iowa decision

Law Dork, who (unlike me) is actually a lawyer, has a really good summary of the opinion written by the Iowa Supreme Court. If the 69-page opinion is TL;DR for you, I recommend reading his post for a quick overview of the key points in their argument.