Iowa: 3 down, 47 to go on gay marriage

Iowa, by unanimous state Supreme Court ruling, is to legalize gay marriage.

Sidebar note to California gay activists who did the wrong thing last year in “doubling down” to try to get a ballot-box win over Prop. 8 rather than forcing it to go through California Assembly approval for ballot access is now in order.

NONE of the early black civil-rights wins came by vote at all, rather than court action. And, any later ones came from inside Congress, not via public referendums. Take notes.