{"id":12021,"date":"2009-04-15T20:49:55","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T03:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2009\/04\/15\/12021.html"},"modified":"2009-04-15T20:49:55","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T03:49:55","slug":"how-iowa-was-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2009\/04\/15\/how-iowa-was-won\/","title":{"rendered":"How Iowa was won"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It's easy for those of us (including me) who weren't paying close attention to Iowa to conclude that the same-sex marriage decision there came completely out of the blue.<\/p>\n<p>But in fact, according to a recent article in the <cite>Washington Post<\/cite>, that decision was the end result of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/04\/14\/AR2009041403455.html\">seven years of hard work<\/a> by a lot of people, including the Lambda Legal people.<\/p>\n<p>And especially including a pair of lawyers: Camilla Taylor from Chicago, working with Lambda Legal, who spearheaded the whole thing, and Dennis Johnson, a former Iowa Solicitor General from Des Moines:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[...Taylor] had never met [Johnson] and was taking a risk by calling him, because her plan to file a lawsuit was a secret.<\/p>\n<p>\"I had never heard of Lambda Legal, or her,\" Johnson said. \"I had never been involved in gay rights at all.\"<\/p>\n<p>[...]<\/p>\n<p>Now Johnson says, \"I've never felt so strongly about a case in my entire career.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Good article, and a good reminder of how important it is to lay the groundwork for this kind of thing.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s easy for those of us (including me) who weren&#8217;t paying close attention to Iowa to conclude that the same-sex&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-samesex-marriage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}