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IOWA CODE - TITLE XV. Judicial Branch and judicial procedures - SUBTITLE 1. Domestic relations

CHAPTER 595 Marriage– 595.2. Gender - Age : 1. Only a marriage between a male and a female is valid.

This law was ruled to be unconstitutional by Polk County judge Robert Hanson on August 30, 2007.[28] On April 3, 2009, the Iowa Supreme Court unanimously upheld Hanson's ruling and nullified the statute prohibiting same-sex marriage.[29] Licenses became available on April 27.[30]

Tim McQuillan and Sean Fritz, Iowa State University students, were married by the Rev. Mark Stringer of First Unitarian Church in Des Moines at 10:32 a.m. on August 31, 2007, becoming the first same-sex couple to be married in Iowa. Shortly thereafter Hanson issued a stay of his own ruling pending appeal. About 20 other same-sex couples had obtained licenses before the stay was issued.

CHAPTER 595

MARRIAGE

Exempt from gender editorial changes, 82 Acts, ch 1217, §2

595.2Gender — age.

1.  Only a marriage between a male and a female is valid.