Technically, it is the fourth, but we aren't counting California since they can't make up their damn mind.

This also puts Iowa, in my book, in the category of one of the smartest states in the country, right after Massachusettes and Connecticut. (Side Note: Connecticut elected Chris Dodd and Joe Lieberman, so they can't be that intelligent.)

With this move, Iowa will now permit same sex couples to be afforded the same rights as multisexual couples. This also means that Iowa will be instilling "family values" by fostering loving, monogomous relationships.

What it also means is that gays and lesbians will be attracted to Iowa for its low cost of living, low unemployment rate, and abbundance of land. With that will come "gay money", with gay men more spend-happy, and with more disposable income due to the lack of children, or low number of children.

There are those that will claim that this is the end of the world; those people did the same thing when Massachusettes legalizaed gay marriage, and the state has not plunged into the bowels of hell from whence never to return. Instead, gay marriage is met with a complete disregard now, or at the most, a mild chuckle.

Those against this ruling will claim it will hurt families and culture; I will never understand how nuturing and promoting monogomous relationships between loving individuals is considered "bad for society". For those who claim that "god is against it" really just need to get over it. Simply put, as a nation with a seperation of church and state, we must be dictated by login, and not theology. If we become a theocracy, then how would the United States be any different than Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, or any other country where religion rules and society suffers because of it?

Equal rights will eventually spread across the country. Maybe not today, but eventually everyone will be equal. In the meantime, Iowa has redefined "Middle America" as a more tolerant, accepting society on the right path.

Oh, and the day when all the whackjobs treat everyone equally? Don't worry about going to your in-laws the next day, the world will come to an end. There will always be idiots with hate, usually based on their guy in the clouds being better than you guy in the clouds. Well, the guys in the clouds agree; shut up and recognize you can't understand the universe through the writings of people translated multiple times from multiple languages, each with different root syntaxes.