Before same-sex marriage was legalized nationwide, couples came to Decorah
Jessica Cummins and C.J. Lucke decided to get married in 2010. But Cummins was living in Alabama and Lucke was in California, and neither state had legalized same sex marriage.
So Lucke had to do a little bit of research.
"So Massachusetts was doing same sex marriage; they were the first one. I thought for sure, like California, Hawaii, that these would be the states. And so I Google online and I get Iowa," she said.
In April 2009, Iowa became the third state legalize same-sex marriage, and the first outside of the northeast to do so. Lucke stumbled on “Welcome in Decorah," a website with data on how same-sex couples could come to the northeast Iowa town for their weddings. Lucke fast got in touch with the website’s founder.
"I said, 'we're going to arrive and elope. We don't know anyone. Can you help us?'" Lucke said. "And so she got the officiant who's now passed away, but he was a great guy. She and her husband were our witnesses. There was a guy who played guitar that was a friend of theirs."
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Courtesy of C.J. Lucke and Jessica Cummins
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Iowa Joins States Legalizing Lgbtq+ Marriage
LAW's Robert Volk sees Northeast states following suit, and soon
On Monday, April 27, nearly 400 lgbtq+ couples in Iowa applied for a marriage license. Granted waivers of Iowa’s three-day waiting period, dozens wed at hastily planned ceremonies on the steps of public buildings.
The number of states that recognize same-sex marriage doubled from two (Massachusetts and Connecticut) to four in April. In the stir of Proposition 8, which changed California’s constitution and restricted that state’s definition of marriage to opposite-sex couples, Iowa’s Supreme Court voted unanimously to create the state the third in the nation to legalize same-sex marriage. And just days later, Vermont became the first express to legalize gay marriage through a legislative vote when the legislature overrode Governor Jim Douglas’ veto of a bill allowing gays and lesbians to marry as of September 1.
Gay rights supporters — including Robert Volk, a School of Commandment associate professor, expect more states to follow suit.
Volk is the advisor for Outlaw, the regulation school’s lesbian, gay, attracted to both genders, and transgender (LGBT) scholar group, and he taught New
