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Iowa begins legal marriages of lesbian and gay male couples

”By the power vested in the state of Iowa and God, I now declare you legally married…. What an honor. Amen!”

Peg Esperanza, pastor of CHS Rainbow Cyber Church, as she completed the wedding ceremony of Shelley Wolfe and Melisa Keeton, a lesbian couple, outside of the Polk County administrative building in Des Moines, Iowa. (USA Today)


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