A ruling on same-sex marriage could be released by the Iowa supreme court tomorrow, reports the Des Moines Register.
The case, Varnum v. Brien, involves six same-sex couples who sued Polk County recorder Timothy Brien after being denied marriage licenses. The couples are challenging the Iowa law that says marriage can only be between a man and a woman.
A Polk County district judge sided with the couples last year, but suspended his decision pending a ruling from the high court.
The outcome of the case holds national significance for the marriage-equality movement. If the judges rule in the couples’ favor, Iowa would become the first Midwestern state, and only the fourth in the United States, to allow same-sex marriage. (Marriage equality currently exists in Massachusetts and Connecticut, and California, which allowed same-sex marriage for five months in 2008 after a supreme court ruling in its favor, is currently in limbo over the Prop. 8 voter initiative to overturn it, now back in the court's hands.)
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