Same-sex Marriage Becoming a Trend?  Not quite…

What do Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, and Vermont all have in common?  Due to the Iowa Supreme Court decision last Friday and the decision by the Vermont legislature today, four states in our country have now redefined marriage to include same-sex relationships. 

With the Iowa Supreme Court ruling, many media outlets were surprised that a “heartland” state is starting to “support” this nontraditional form of marriage. But what the media fails to mention is that these four states have legalized same-sex “marriage” without a vote by the people.  The “heartland support” of same-sex “marriage” in Iowa consisted of not Iowa’s heartland citizens but of seven judges.

The news from Iowa and Vermont isn’t encouraging.  But is same-sex “marriage” becoming a trend among our states?  Certainly not.  While Iowa and Vermont are the most recent cases,  it was only a few months ago that voters in California, Arizona, and Florida each passed an amendment to their state constitution to make sure marriage was defined as only between one man and one woman. 

If you look at the recent "scoreboard," traditional marriage has won three of the last five battles.  Overall, thirty states have constitutionally protected one-man, one-woman marriage, and at least nine other states have statutory language protecting marriage.  Those states redefining marriage are clearly the outliers - the ones going against the norm.   

While the daily news might portray same-sex “marriage” as being inevitable in our country, this is not the case.  The main stream media wants you to forget how the people of California, Arizona, and Florida voted to support traditional marriage only a few months ago. The media wants you to believe that same-sex “marriage” will soon be the law of the land.  While the battle is certainly not over in many states, citizens should not believe the misconception that there’s a “trend” across our country supporting same-sex “marriage.”      

If you don’t remember anything from this blog post, remember these two important statistics:

0% of states that have legalized same-sex “marriage” have done so by the vote of the people.  Neither Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, nor Vermont have redefined marriage by the vote of the people.

100% of the states (30 states total) that have asked their voters to define marriage in their state constitution have defined marriage as between only one man and one woman because the voters – not the judges or legislators – made that decision.