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Iowa gay marriage drawing out-of-state couples
Gazette Staff/SourceMedia
Sep. 1, 2009 7:45 am
Data show that same-sex couples are coming from other states to get married in Iowa.
An Iowa Supreme Court ruling in April legalized same-sex marriage in the state. In a Sunday story, the Des Moines Register reports that since the April ruling, state data show about 45 percent of Iowa's same-sex marriages were between out-of-state couples.
Between April 27 and July 27 there were 5,214 marriage certificates issued statewide. Of those, 676 were for same-sex couples. Gender was concealed on 339 marriage certificates.
Of the 676 same-sex couples, 312 couples weren't from Iowa.
They were from neighboring states.
- The Associated Press
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